The flesh must fade.
The flesh and skin must peel
and fade,
as must all things ephemeral,
temporal and corporeal.
The red, ripe flesh and orange skin
must rot
and leave the seed.
Beauty, ephemeral beauty,
of body, flesh and bones,
must peel away and leave the soul,
the blue sky and the green sea,
emerald seat of virtue,
evergreen seeding garden,
to breed and shoot new cycles
of fruits and flesh and seeds.
Once when we were young
we saw ourselves as gods,
and goddesses,
forever young and green,
full of youthful beauty.
We are
not.
Copyright ©2010 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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