FROM CONCEPTION GESTATION AND MOMENT OF BIRTH
YOUTH IS GIVEN SPARKLING LIKE AN UNBREAKABLE DIAMOND
WE HAVE IT YET UNCONSCIOUS OF HOW PRECIOUS
YET ITS NEVER LASTS FOR IMMORTALITY
A GIFT BESTOWED BY NATURE THROUGH GOD'S HAND
YET SECONDS SLIP BY REPEATEDLY AND INCESSANTLY
AT A STEADY CONSTANT YET UNSEEN PACE
WE CANNOT HALT ITS COURSE OF OUR PASSAGE
THROUGH ITS EVER CHANGING JOURNEY
OUR BODIES LITHE AND STEALTHY WITH THE LUSTRE OF
ALMOST UNNOTICED DANCING STRIKING YOUTH
WE RUN AROUND LIKE BUTTERFLIES NEWLY UNCOCOONED
DURING EARLY LIFE A SENTIENT FLOWER BLOSSOMED
WITH SKIN SMOOTH EYES BRIGHT LIMBS STRONG
SKIN AS PORCELAINE PERFECT AND GLEAMING
THEN ALMOST IMPERCEPTIBLY ALL BEGINS TO FADE
FROM TENDER YEARS WE ARE THEN MAROONED
AS THE YEARS SO ABUNDANTLY WE HAVE LIVED
RETRACT SWIFTLY YET DISCREETLY BID US GOODBYE
OUR AWARENESS OF OUR PHYSICAL ARMOUR
BEGINS TO TAINT AND SEIZE NO OIL COULD UNFREEZE
BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION BY ACHES AND PAINS
LOSS OF ENERGY AND MANY A DISEASE
YET VALIANTLY OUR WILL AND SPIRIT DESPITE ALL THE ODDS
AS STRONG AS IT EVER WAS
YET ONLY LINGERS
IN THE VORTEX OF TIME'S SLIPPING EVERMORE SPEEDILY BY
THROUGH T0 THE IMPENDING GRAVE OF ABYSS
THOUGH OUR TRUE ESSENCE REMAINS
NO LOSS OF TIME CAN EVER DIMINISH OR DIM
OUR SPIRITS AND SOULS IMMORTAL
SO WILL REMAIN UNTOUCHED
OUR BRIGHT SHINING ENERGY
WILL FOREVER PERPETUATE IN UNIVERSE'S SYNERGY ONTO
COPYRIGHT NATASHA ANNE KELLEHER AUGUST 2020
