Youthful Old Heart
Learn to stay calm and placid
Now again don’t make me start
Let me believe and act my age
You, my youthful old heart
Don’t jump at the sight of biceps
Or skip a beat at dimpled grins
Quit trying to convince me
That those are legal sins
Don’t yearn for the red lipstick
And that gaudy naughty nail paint
Let me present a tempered look
Or my name they’ll purely taint
Written on 08/19/2016
Contest: Oxymoronic Obsession by David Lindsay
Oxymorons: youthful old,legal sin,purely taint
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