New Glasses

I remember getting glasses…and feeling so sublime. I was in the second grade…seeing the world for the first time. But my eyesight gets a little worse each year…a fact I can't ignore. I was 7 years old back then…today I'm sixty-four. So when I picked up my new glasses yesterday…as I am wont to do. I put them on my face…and I marveled at the view. The world was bright and beautiful…so much clearer than before… and I smiled until I saw my reflection…in the mirror on the door. I couldn't believe my eyes! I was so much older than before! I'm sure I didn't look this old…in the last pair of glasses that I wore. So I quickly ran and got my old glasses…and I was glad to see a younger man was in the mirror…staring back at me. So now I have two pair of glasses…one for seeing the world clearer… and one I put on anytime…I'm looking in a mirror.