Her lines had become creases now,<\/p>\n
Deep caverns of deeply rooted emotion<\/p>\n
Scarring what had once been pristine skin<\/p>\n
Each line was a memory,<\/p>\n
the painful emotional\u00a0divorce,<\/p>\n
the lost child taken without a chance to fight,<\/p>\n
the loss of parents and grandparents that made her<\/p>\n
feel like an orphan even in old age<\/p>\n
Loneliness across her jowl<\/p>\n
Years of unquestioned worry on her brow<\/p>\n
The gray hair that fell in deep snowy mountains<\/p>\n
when she cut her hair<\/p>\n
It was all there<\/p>\n
Lost lovers torment<\/p>\n
The suicide that never went away<\/p>\n
The victimizing and the victim<\/p>\n
The deep love, the unrequited crushes<\/p>\n
Harsh words that cut her skin<\/p>\n
Black\u00a0memories that became craters<\/p>\n
Her eyes sunk low from years of tears<\/p>\n
Her smile cultivated but hardly real<\/p>\n
Each day longer than the one before<\/p>\n
Taking the blood and sweat and turning them<\/p>\n
Into pale lips and ghostly skin<\/p>\n
She wore it all<\/p>\n
Proudly<\/p>\n
Without makeup<\/p>\n
Her wrinkles were her own<\/p>\n
No one could take them<\/p>\n
No one could iron them<\/p>\n
No one could rearrange them<\/p>\n
They told her life’s story<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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