Deception
Deception
Old age comes in many ways,
as new winds blow
across a dark past.
Lifeless limbs stretch out
with callused palms
Fingers snarled in days work,
passé to needed touch,
from old brittle bones
creaked in a pendulum swing in time.
While darkened nails give way
to peeled flesh and old cracks.
Once stroked skin,
tender to feel,
withered in life's moment.
Now bent backs hunched in age,
until day's end resting upon a death.
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Submitted on July 05, 2016
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| Characters | 414 |
| Words | 76 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 4, 2, 3, 3 |
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