Sunday, March 18, 2012

Ode 4.10 - Youthful Arrogance

You gorgeous young stuck-up son of a bitch.
Right now you are tasty

but strange hairs of grey will soon be sprouting
in unlikely patches

while as if in exchange those on your head
will fall off in batches

and your once proud skin sags down with despair
all wrinkled and pasty

You too will become an “old troll” as I.
You don’t believe me now...

and you won’t believe it then.
You’ll gape at yourself in the mirror and cry

“Who is this creature who stands in my place?
Who bears my proud name

but bends downward with shame?
And what became of my once pretty face?

How can so much of me have changed, passed by,
when I am still the same? The same?”

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