Friday, May 20, 2022

vanity

at every age,
every stage of life,
we stay vain.
as a child we lick
the cow
lick down.
staring into the mirror
at what other's
might see
and judge.
through middle age
and beyond.
we find
the mirror to gauge
our look,
our years, 
stepping on then off
the scale,
before we move on.

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