According to Their Years

Day 21: Had a tough time today. Ended up trying to combine the prompts from RWP (exploring flaws and perfection) and Poetic Asides (starting a poem with "according to"). Here's the first attempt:

According to Their Years

She is old. So is he.

They walk,

Brown spotted hand in

Varicose-veined one,

Crackling leaves

Under sensible shoes.

Her blue eyes are milky now,

The skin between her fingers rough.

He cannot wrap his hands completely

Round her waist like when they met.

There is a limp in his gait,

More hair in his beard than on his head.

He can’t hear her

whispering in his ear anymore.

But according to their eyes

the one that walks beside them

is a mirror,

the only one either wants

to look at anymore,

because each reflects the other's

perfection.