Saturday, June 4, 2022

Skin Deep

do not like the skin I’m in -

It’s dotted, dry and wrinkled,

Like paper with a reject poem -

Once smooth, now sadly crinkled.


Each little tap becomes a bruise,

A purple blotch, attesting

To all the years I’ve spent on earth,

A dermal-type divesting.


Some freckles not here yesterday

Have multiplied and scattered.

They would have bothered me much more 

When my appearance mattered.


What troubles me some others might

Find trite and almost risible.

I should let go, for at my age

To others I’m invisible.

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