What I’m Learning About Women Aging

What I’m learning about women aging

is we don’t do it alone –

everything, from being able to gather dust 

lines alongside us, trinkets, and trophies

defiant on a cherry shelf,

saved from the fate

of the thrift shop.

We think when someone passes,

this time they’ll look twice,

ask what we knew before now,

where we discovered the truth. Beauty.

But mostly we see each other,

silver and heavy in our limited number,

tarnishing into unrecognizable.

Just things atop meaningful things.

Waiting to be remembered.

Thank you to Daisy Dabb for their inspired edit on this piece and everyone else on the Humanity team.

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