The Vanity of Youth
The vanity of youth is at it’s height
when its weight is carried light.
It’s an accidental manifestation
of another’s envious estimation.
It’s lasting value, less than a mirage,
disappears with bitterness into old age.
To those who took the lie for truth
when told in their vanity of youth
must now in beauty’s absence live
a lie impossible to forget or forgive.
Copyright © Maurice Rigoler | Year Posted 2025
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