POTIONS & LOTIONS

Girl

beyond your prime,

it's (past) your time, innit,

turning to the Craft?

Gird your loins 

and face the facts

of the light. 

Sidling up to the MIRROR/medicine cabinet

(with a side-eye for Shelf  #2);

Replete with the gifts Mom passed on to you,

bestowed at birth  

and the ones for now,

left dusty and untouched for so many years.

You're reading those labels now, ain't ya.

"Collagen" and "super-moisturizing", 

Erasing this, tightening that.  

Softening the edges here, and here,

and blend, and blend.....

Your keys to self-preservation

in pretty pastel shades.