Youth & Beauty..........mazHur

Take pride in your beauty
That is your right
Play with your marbles
As long as you might

Take pride in your youth
That too is your right
Play with your strong muscles
As long as you might

But no. Beauty and youth
Are not forever
Like a brief spring in the Arctic
Both will soon be over.

A rose smells good when fresh
Seems good for a while
Soon it withers away
And rents no smile

Run you may for how long?
Comes there a time you halt
You sweat, huff and heave
Try to recoup your lost salt

But salt and sugar and spice
Serve but your palate
As long as you can take them
Like love and hate

Permanence is to nothing
Beauty, youth or anything
Riches, power, learning, ignorance
Fade With time, the  Ruthless King.

Beautiful, Gorgeous.