Invisible Man

Invisible Man

By

Leo de Natale

A grain of sand through the hourglass how quickly it falls

A metaphor for those whose time rapidly accelerates

Oh we were warned how one’s age becomes a freight train

Out of control. Blink of an eye 40, the blink of an eye 50, the blink of an eye and it’s 70;

You gaze into a mirror and a face stares back

Changing so imperceptibly at first then an avalanche of sagging skin baggy eyes Forehead lines. What is happening to myself you say…

I am a soul with external and internal wrinkles. Some bemoan, some Accept. Humor And laughter and family are the salve and succor.

The aged dwell in the past when they Were somebody and not

Some invisible person Ignored, unnoticed at the grocery store, The Restaurant, invisible to younger passersby

On the street those addicted to cell Phones are oblivious to Everyone.

Societal Detachment; illness, disease, immobility Become the battle Lines between Young and Old we’ve seen it kids and it will happen to

You, believe us.  The invisible men and women have seen it

It’s true