We start out so beautiful
Radiant perfection
Baby fat adorable
Helpless charming
New to everything
We climb trees
Catapult fearlessly over walls
Curiosity rules us
We are invincible
Then slowly we descend
Grow hairy, wrinkled,
Bloated with depression.
Skin furrows deep scars
Rough etched bark-like
Bent over hunched
Walking cane and wheelchairs
no more dangerous daring
no more beauty prizes
no more freebies for being cute
Nope
And then you die
Goodbye.
