When your body changes

What it’s like

When your body changes

And suddenly “I” doesn’t recognize me.

For instance, there’s
an insistence,

A growing larger

To make room for life

There’s a happy you’re supposed to feel in

The only time you’ve a permission slip

To gain and take two meals

But then on the other side,

The pride and freedom felt

Are gone as you realize these

bodies you’re supposed to idealize

Are forever out of your reach.

Too soon, it seems

You awake from mistaken dreams

And reintroduce yourself to the

Body you’re in now.

More wrinkles, sure, and

Mountains where the molehills were

And where did that

Beach-front property go?

For now, you see, this is me.

This “I” I’ve never been before

Larger, smaller, there will still be

Changes, more.

What it’s like

When your body changes

Is like meeting a new me

Like I forgot my own name

But somehow, still, I look familiar.