Poem: Ruby Red Lips

ruby red lips
full of vitality
a pained reminder
of the ravages
age upon body
filled with such jealously of it wasted
on the unappreciative youthful years

ruby red lips
will never again age
in the cold embrace
of awaiting grave 
where our time does stop
cold countenance for immortality
that lasts an eternity without tears

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I thought that addressing the pet peeve of wasted youth and how it reminds us of aging, and how to stop that process might meet the spirit of Halloween for Ms Jade‘s Halloweeny Duodora ( a quatorzain made up of 2 septets.
syllabic, 4/6/5/5/5/10/10 syllables per line. rhymed Axxxxxb Axxxxxb L1 is repeated as a refrain that begins the 2nd stanza. x is unrhymed) prompt over at d’Verse.

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