Decaying super heroes

Ribcage opening up

Inside bursting out

Brief beauty

An instance

Frilly hair

Female scent

Overflowing

Oozing down the wall

In your face

Voluptuous

Fragile

Sensual

Sincere

& done

All of a sudden it seems so ridiculous – life

Trying to capture a moment

That in nature re-appears

Every year at about the same time

But trying to be in it & in it & in it

Not understanding that with time of beauty

Comes wilting, dying and re-birthing of the body

Staying young forever

What a nightmare

Like Groundhog Day over & over again

Flowers are not teenagers repeating themselves over & over again

They just make us feel like it

Plants begin as a twig, dressed in a few petals

Next year a little wiser than the last, a few new branches,

More flowers, stronger scent and a slightly weathered attitude.

A bend in the knees, an amputated stump but a stronger backbone

Handling the weight of wisdom gracefully

With still more knuckles standing out

Every year’s wisdom

Every year’s value

Hardly holding the head up

Shoulder sinking

Dragging arms

Reaching the dirt

Hair falling

Hairless

Howling

Bare

Cold

Naked

Grunting

& gone

 

                                                       Camilla Newhagen, 2007