Five Stand Alone Stanzas

WALKING a dreary walk by the beach a violent exercise sand between the toes uncomfortable AGE never too old to love life begins at sixty a string of white hair old age begins to show KISS dance of the tongues a prelude to a sexual adventure France devalued DEFICIENCY the mind thirst for knowledge As the heart hunger for love in my barren body there is only famine MONSTROSITY The failure of a life Hoping for happiness which in itself is a monstrosity And those who desire it are severely reprimanded The truth of it all, felicity is strife!