Time Has Become Poem by Francis Duggan

Doubtless to say time has become her foe
She was quite pretty thirty years ago
She uses anti aging creams and with brown hair dye cloak her gray
In her attempts to keep aging at bay
But time on the body creeps slow
And the years on the best of them does show
In her early sixties childless and without a partner in her life
To any man she was never a wife
In her younger years one of the most attractive young women of the town
She turned a few proposals of marriage down
One reason that she is single today
For pride there can be a price to pay
A rare beauty in her physical prime
Though this is going back many years in time.