"SWAN'S GRACE"
"SWAN'S GRACE"
Home alone I sit again this night
No surprises here
This is my normal plight
Once I was a beautiful girl
Living my life
One giant, confusing swirl
Beauty has a way of catching up with time
When you least expect it, everything has changed
And it's stops on a thin dime
Maybe I don't look quite my age
That doesn't mean that things are the same
Or that I still take center stage
As far as my looks went
I was spoiled right from a small child
My beauty was a weapon, a barter, something that could be spent
As horrific as that sounds, so true
My looks used for whatever needed
Dependable as super glue
Now as the years creep up so slow
My beauty starting to fade
Like the red hot summer sun losing it's glow
Some might say I'm just like fine wine
I'm not feeling it, I'm losing it
Life isn't quite so sweet and sublime
My face is well pressed with few wrinkles in sight
But they are creeping in
Like a thief in the night
The hair is grey as I gave up the dye
Can't fool them forever
I refuse to keep up the lie
Weight and gravity, a terrible shame
No woman should endure
Living as a slave to beauty, it's not a game
I have lived close to a golden year
Pushing fifty, pushing up daisies
My life could be over, yet I have no fear
With the blink of my emerald eyes
Time really did a number
To be old and ugly, I prefer to die
Like pretty colored leaves in the Autumn of my life
Time goes by quicker
It's already Samhain, what friggen' strife
I wouldn't mind so much
With all this time slipping by
It's being alone and not feeling someone's touch
I think that is what causes the grey hair
Incredible loneliness
This swan is without a mate and full of despair
The swan is supposed to be beautiful and full of grace
Maybe I was this bird at one time
But now, that bird of beauty has flown without a trace!
DORI WHEELER 25june09
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