At what age are you expired?

At what age are you expired?

 –

too old for sex

too old for romance

too old to exist. 

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The cold is seeping into my bones

and my mind is stiff with desire. 

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Is passion an invention for the young? 

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A lifetime of broken hearts

carved into each wrinkle 

sagging body bit

meant nothing? 

–

At the end of my journey

by my bag tricks 

to the day 

my heart ceases to be. 

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Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet, and translator, was born in 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.