Seeing a beautiful young woman at 80
is different for me.
Instead of seeing only her beauty,
I see her fast forwarded into the future
when her beauty,
like the transitory nature of life,
will be gone.
And I see the older woman in
the making within her.
If my vision were better, I would
see the skeleton, the death
beneath her beauty
and the fact that beauty,
like one’s life, is as if illusionary
when it is no more.
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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