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MY DEAR BODY

Are you betraying me

Or did I betray you?

You protest

I confess 

Done you wrong

I thought you were strong

Enough to endure

Maintain your allure

So how did you lose

That youthful contour?

I fed you well

Well maybe too much

Though nothing too bad

As such

I could have done better

I know

But who turned your hair

To snow

Or makes you walk 

So slow

Or dimmed your glow

Or made everything

Slip below?

Not I.

It's nature I blame

You need to know

There's no shame

In your sagging pieces

Increasing creases

Those accidental releases

Let me be clear

There's no betrayal here

Nothing mysterious or obscured

You must rest assured

You've simply matured

(Recently, the prompt here at Poet's United was 'the body'.  I started to write it but never made it to the deadline so I'm posting, though pretty late.)

(For Poets United.)