Suddenly it hits her … hard.
The unthinkable has happened;
she’s become an old woman
that men no longer look at
with longing in their eyes.

Not young and desirable anymore,
she’s become invisible to them.
She remembers how lovely
all the attention used to be.
Now she feels like an old
dried up peach nobody wants

She thought she’d be beautiful
forever, wrinkled, elderly and
unappealing never.
Yet here she is looking in the
mirror and seeing only a hag.

She muses, at least I won’t
be old and unattractive forever,
takes another sip of wine, gets
tipsy, and for a while feels
young and beautiful again.

Bob Boyd