I remember watching her in a movie
in a packed movie theater when a
guy a few seats in front of me
gasped when he saw her
overcome by her incredible beauty
though I didn’t gasp
and was a teenage kid
I was taken with her beauty too
Many years later I learned that
despite her astonishing beauty
she never found lasting love
five marriages ending in divorces
undesired when she lost her looks
in the earlier years of her fifties
and spent the rest of her life
unloved and alone
Bob Boyd
Author: BobBoyd
Age 80. Cancer survivor since 3 years ago. Work out 3 times a week. Ride my exercise bike 2 hours a day. Live a solo reclusive life. Retired a year ago from working with the elderly in a nonprofit. Started writing poetry a little over a year ago; most poems I write are fictional but some are not. Spiritual with a permanent spiritual experience. Write poems on many subjects. Always researching for many of my poems and because of my unquenchable thirst for knowledge. After reading and hearing about many near death experiences and death bed visions, I believe death is the ultimate awakening and the relocation of a lifetime. You may believe differently, but you have the right to be wrong -- I'm just messing with you. :-)
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