Eternal youth
In vain, you seek
Like Endymion
In his beauty sleep
So easily distracted
By life's great diversity
Blind to your
Own desirability
Rejecting the facts
Ignoring the obvious
You blatantly miss
Similarities;
Between your own
Lessened attire
And the splendor of
Those you desire
But have no despair
You shall one day transcend
To a level
Where you can self-mend;
A comforting haven
To discover yourself
In which there's
No need to pretend
And eventually find
As you're growing older;
It's all in the eye
Of the beholder
~
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Webster's definitions:
Endymion (mythical- a young man who was kept immortally youthful and beautiful through eternal sleep; beloved of the goddess Selene, who came to him every night in the cave where he slept)
Distracted (irrational; rendered incapable of behaving, reacting etc., in a normal manner, as by worry, remorse, or the like)
Similarity (the state of being similar; likeness; resemblance)
Transcend (to rise above or go beyond the limits of)
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