A Quarter Of A Century

I'm getting older today yet I feel the same 
My body doesn't ache, but my mind feels ancient 
Twenty-five trips around the sun and a million
around the moon and stars 
In all of those years, 
I have never worried about getting older 
At least I'm a little wiser now than when I was younger
But for all the things that I've lost and things I have learned 
I have never forgotten the people that I have loved
And with every year that turns, I grow a little more 
Becoming a woman that I am proud of 
Whilst gaining wisdom to give to others 
As I continue my adventure across this blue rock 
Changing with the wind as time goes on
Just a small purple flower dancing beneath the sun.