Double Six (Poetry)

It doesn’t feel
I’ve been alive
long enough
to be this old

Someone tossed the dice —
only yesterday
I was twenty-two ...
later, forty-four

then suddenly
I’m thrown
a double-six —
an unlikely score

I’m not ready —
it’s all happened
far too quick —
it doesn’t fit

with the image
that I have
inside my head
I’m still a girl