Just Enjoy!

Pretty in pink, she smiles
graciously for the camera,
a pink blossom wedged in
her wispy-white hair and
admits she is happy. Distinctive
she most certainly is,
and venerable as well, an
absolute rarity as someone
born in 1898, precisely 117
years ago to this date of 
March 5. Her kimono 
patterned in cherry blossoms
with a certain girlish lift,
she speaks of her lifespan
as feeling "rather short", but
eminently satisfying. As to
that inevitable query regarding
what had led to her world record
of longevity, her response
went far in demonstrating that
wisdom does occasionally
accompany age when she 
casually murmured her own
puzzlement in gaining that
anomaly: "I wonder about that too"