Getting Old
von Sam Vaknin (Copyright)
The sageing flesh,
a wrinkled vicedom.
The veined reverberation
of a life consumed.
On corneas imprinted
with a thousand dreams,
now stage penumbral plays
directed by a sight receding
and a brain enraged.
To fall, as curtains call,
to bow the last,
rendered a sepia image
in a camera obscured,
a line of credits,
fully exhausted,
fully endured.
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Author Bio:
Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self
Love – Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain – How the West Lost the
East.
He served as a columnist for Central Europe Review, PopMatters, and
eBookWeb, a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent, and
the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory Bellaonline, and Suite101.
Sam’s Web Site:
http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com