East Coast Hype

(A Blank Verse Sonnet) At fifty-two, a new career is launched in beauty firm installed on eastern shore, to aid all those who live with problem skin. As sales increase, adventure swells; she wins awards, free trips, new friends, and diamond rings. With pride, she dons the pen for “Be a Ten,” and coast to coast arrangements spell her norm. But, friendships wane on jaunty trips, the trek becomes a stress which brings her less and less content to show the aloe glow as proof that older skin need not begin to wear a shriveled face, but wear a youthful tone. And yet, the spark with eastern hype instilled a drive to stay the course throughout her life.