Remembering Beauty Poem by Francis Duggan

Her shoulder length hair was as dark as the wing of a crow
And her eyes were as blue as a November sloe
Never spoke at length to her just a passing hello
And i last laid eyes on her two decades ago.

I wonder with dark dye does she cover her gray
For she would be in her early fifties today
She was quite a beauty when in her life's prime
But beauty it always does lose out to time.

Did she give birth to children and become some lucky man's wife
Or did she remain childless and lead a single life?
She would have changed much from the one i did know
As the years on us all quickly do seem to show.

A beautiful face i recall from the past
But time ticks along nothing does seem to last
And young in my memory she always will stay
She once bloomed like a rose in a town far away.