Agelessness -- When Big Ben Strikes 12 !

Ageing occurs only
from NINETEEN
to THIRTY-NINE.

FORTY begins the
journey to real youth
and teenage every year :

forty-one means
-in our scale only
thirty-nine;

and this is a rigmarole
behind agelessness.
Ageing conforms youthfulness

Stillness of ageing is
confidence minus restlessness.
Sages have said,
"restlessness is senselessness".

What is really youthful?
Endless youthfulness
or the grand
TAURUS of youth,
and, the teenage dewdrops…?

Winter signals:
in the warmth of
Bright morning ice,

the Spring-love-birds
will be soon
flying high -again –
in the lively blue sky.

Just as there is Light
in Darkness;

there is
ever youthfulness in
the ageing process.

Beauty of youth brightens
after forty.

Just as SUN shines,
and it glows ever more
with
radiance-at-its-peak
at noon:

When
Big-Ben strikes
twelve daily
just before
every afternoon.

-- Anurag Gangal