Born beautiful, her beauty had consequences.
She became self infatuated and obsessed
with her beauty.
Her looks dominated her life, became the
center of her superficial universe at the
expensive of her mental development.
She tolerated education. It had little importance
to her with the exception of beauty produces
and appearance enhancements.
She wasn’t conversant on many subjects,
but it didn’t matter; man fawned over her
just the same.
When the years robbed her of her beauty
and even surgeries and cosmetics
could no longer sustain it, she nearly
killed herself.
Now when she looks in what used to be
a complimentary mirror, she sees what
she calls an old hag, and she bemoans
her lost beauty and the men who used
to fawn over her.
Her beauty gone forever, she often
cries and looks at photos of her glory days
as her life fades away.
Bob Boyd