Varicose veins stitched into her thighs she is beautiful in the way Her skin is soft and quietly dimpled The places around her slightly down turned mouth Her eyes that have seen That have SEEN Into the hearts of many a lover of a weepy child Eyes lost and found through the window pane overlooking the slowly rotting rose bush Her stomach is like linen sheets it is delicately wrinkled delicately lined The labor of child birth the beauty of carrying a child She has given herself she is reborn she is eternal Stretch marks slightly more pale than what they cut through glow In the moonlight she is angelic Shimmering grey hair twinkles against where it has splayed behind her A halo a crown of settling dust She is illuminated Her body is art she has been delicate she has been rough Her ******* hang they have fallen softly from the gentle caresses of Father Time So softly she is touched The light of the night surrounds her and in all these things Silver trands velvet skin A maze of veins on her palette In all of these things she exists She EXISTS she remains ever beautiful ever daunting She is She is She is And she will always be