Promptly

Entry 12 To Be Announced

(PPC6 Prompt 12)

You stun me glamour queen
Nakedly grim, gaunt, lifeless
Not a stitch of your former glory

Remember spring your pastels giddy
Glorious, glistening with dew
And summer rich greens golden fruits
Red ripe yellow kernels fuzzy seed pods
Too much cleavage, sure, but summer

Then your fall foliage lush crimson wear
oranges maroons you donned magnificent
skirts to thrust into the winds amber
scarves scattered across blazing earth

Until
Naked
I can't look at you anymore
Why taunt me gaunt girl
Waiting for the white linen
Of snow and ice
Cover your shriveled breasts
cloak your withered spine
Bind up your grotesque hips
Slip something on those
Garish limbs arms hands fingers

You, in the heat of a 22 degree day
You scream through clenched lips
"look at my face!" But why girl?
I have never looked there before
Never dared look there where
Eyes gray and stormy or
Cool blue reserved haughty proud
I content myself with your body
Beautifully curved plush soft sacred

Then yesterday, With reverence, yesterday
I looked where tears from your eyes
Formed icicles to catch a ray of light
I was drawn to look deeper where crevices
Had formed on your cheeks and brow
A dimple here and a dimple there
Reminders of when you were a toddler
An infant laughing at winter's cruelty

I smile as you frown at the squirrels
And flirtatious birds thrashing about
in the remains of what you cast aside
There is nourishment there for some
Right up where your hair turned gray
Such a pretty face scoured by sleet
Wind rain - ice laced face grimacing
with each contraction birthing buds
For your new wardrobe

I've been too harsh with you naked one
Who am I to judge and look away
You are after all how God made you
How God for a season wanted me to see you
Embrace you
Hold you
Love you
All of you



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