I'm aging
And I know I've always been
There is no way
No matter how I try, for me to be young again
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I'm yearning
To find a sense of peace
Learning
to go with it and celebrate my journey of release
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I'm hopeful
That there are days ahead
I'm multivocal
Experience comes with me, all the days I've lived
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I'm changing, I know
I feel different in my skin
Deep into my bones
Rediscovering who I am
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I'm growing
Learning there is so much more to me
Than what is showing
So much more than what is seen
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I'm not the same
Although I am
I am reclaimed
To grow again
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This body changes
Letting me slowly regenerate
It rearranges
My mind and soul can separate
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Coming together once again
to find
That I begin and end
Wholly known inside my mind
About the Creator
Kelli Sheckler-Amsden
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Welcome to our first Winners Announcement of the year and to the final challenge in the Fall Poetry Series. The Last Flame invited writers to sit with endings, using fire as a central image to consider what remains when something burns out: ash, warmth, memory, silence, or the faint promise of what comes next. The strongest pieces treated endings as gradual rather than sudden, allowing them to flicker, dim, and linger.
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Growth, maturity, acceptance of ourselves & how we are becoming--hard earned badges of every successive stage of life.
It's good to relearn about ourselves for there may have been some special attribute we have to share. Good job.
beautiful, Kelli!
Age … with it you gain wisdom and weight 😉