Not Seen for an Age

Not Seen for an Age

Does the camera lie?
We do
Feel it’s best to contest
How we look and don’t accept

In our minds
Age is a stage, not a sentence
Prefer pixels so cold they lie
To us about ourselves

Our faces’ lines of experience
Effaced by a touch till
Untouched by time

We know the truth but stare it down
If you could see the way we feel
You just might see us