Distorted Immortality

Distorted Immortality

She was young and strong
Gloriously firm
Athletic, long and lean

She had a love for all
Ethereal magical fantasies
Legendary and glorious

Youth ignores
The promise of death
Ten foot high and bulletproof

Unicorns intrigued her
Strong, powerful
Magical beasts

The legend lived
Tattooed on her breast
Alive on taunt firm flesh

But, humans are not immortal
And time distorts
Mere flesh, bone and skin

Youth dies with age
Another year, another page
Life extracts surface beauty

A magical beast
Lays dying
Disfigured on her breast

A once-strong head
Bows and genuflects
To the weight of age

The once-strong horn
Straight and magical
Lays gnarled and grotesque

A gruesome creature
Belies a life
Lived with honesty and respect

She was once beautiful
Energetically alive
Long and lean

Now...
Death decays immortality
Tattooed on a breathless chest