Honor Age
Feeling young inside
passes a mirror
screams in horror
who is She?
So to a defense
with a cosmetic plastic facade
in some shame game.
Lipstick coated, mascara bloated
foundation corroded
beauty?
The price of beauty can be
caustic, corrosive, cancerous
and oh, to be so young as you feel
not as you see!
Tell her she is pretty inside
or she will not embrace truth.
Tell her how wise she is
or she will have wisdom's pale
shadowed pain.
Tell her of the beauty in those with age
or she may be battered and bruised
with a knife to stop time.
Change the gray? Never ...
I earned it.
Plastic the wrinkles? Never ...
I smiled a lot!
I am as I am ...
Come ... Let's celebrate
inner Youth,
outside Crone!
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