Your portrait provides testament to your words
that life etches itself onto our faces over time
and yours indeed is well-marked with lines
underscoring your eyes and furrowing your brow
with no smile to temper your plaintive stare
which speaks of worldly sorrows and cares
thus exposing your vulnerability to the ages
fixing future generations with a melancholy gaze
yet in doing so achieving a humble immortality
for it is certain that you will look on and on
long after this onlooker is dead and gone
offering to the living a brief communion
and a subdued moment of quiet reflection.
that life etches itself onto our faces over time
and yours indeed is well-marked with lines
underscoring your eyes and furrowing your brow
with no smile to temper your plaintive stare
which speaks of worldly sorrows and cares
thus exposing your vulnerability to the ages
fixing future generations with a melancholy gaze
yet in doing so achieving a humble immortality
for it is certain that you will look on and on
long after this onlooker is dead and gone
offering to the living a brief communion
and a subdued moment of quiet reflection.
