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Patris's avatar

I meet my mother grandmother and my aunts in the mirror now. The ‘end of all our exploring’, right? We come to the beginning and ‘know it for the first time.’ At 19 I knew it was truth. Even more truth now.

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Russell C. Smith's avatar

I remember reading this poem when I was younger. For me, it's about how we rarely feel as old as our physical age. And with our minds, memories, imaginings we're often seeing life through the eyes of our younger selves.

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