Star

Don't give roses

to an aged star

it will only remind her

of the beauty she was

every dying petal

signifying the days - years

she has lost

and strives to retain

at a surgeons cost

but in the end will not

instead bring her a potted plant

Whose beauty

Is not fleetingly

Whose leaves, flowers

Renew

And are never really lost

give her reason

one that continually grows

remind her

of the life she still holds

By

Everett E. Phillips, III