old age comes to the flower children

The look had been
new

fashionable in the 60's

The Songs of Innocence
and Experience

verses tattooed amid
the Wildflowers and
cosmic symbols

the yin and the yang
of their bodies

though,
now, after decades
of aging
and abuse,

the look was
burned out
heavily weighted
onto the experience
side

downcast
as sun
flowers weary

of time