Tag: wrinkles

  • Wrinkles

    Wrinkles

    Her quiet eyes still look on
    Validation all they seek
    Autumn’s gone; tomorrow beholds
    More frigid, morose, wintry days

    Those wizened hands are outstretched wide
    Revealing tales of days gone by
    Pausing; waiting for a moment
    Craving blissful sanctity

    Her face is crinkled; yet so elegant
    And may be fifty years ago
    A single wrinkle flashed her face
    Smile adept at melting stone

    But now the wrinkles pile on up
    Adorn her aging, graceful visage
    Each facial line an honest reminder
    That outer beauty is always short-lived;

    Her eyes, though, tell a different story
    Speak volumes of inner allure
    And wrinkles add to the shrouded charm
    So wondrous, pleasing to the eyes.

    © 2013 Mihir Kamat

    Inspired by today’s prompt – Eye of the Beholder.
    Image courtesy of Google.