Sonnet #77 by FisherKingKQJ
Twenty on twenty years renew your bones,
They're reborn down to the bright red marrow;
Your vague memories the graveyard owns,
You yearn for yourself, a young imago.
Your eyes are sunken, your skin is sallow,
The flesh hangs loose on your arms, your chin sags,
And lines stitch your lippied pout; you allow
For birth and death yet the quizz of pain nags.
Yet sometimes time speeds, sometimes time drags
I know this mysterious, wild sadness wells
Up your tears at your milestones and flags,
But I believe there's a smile in your stem cells.
Estragen and the plastic surgeon's knife
My love, free the butterfly of endless life.
{3D interactive chorus:}
Estragen and the plastic surgeon's knife.
Estragen and the plastic surgeon's dirk.
Estragen and the plastic surgeon's poniard.
Editor's note: if you look hard at a Spenserian sonnet such as this you might see a butterfly and live forever.