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