Classic Poem

Your head is steel cut into drooping lines
That make a mask satirically meek
Your face is like a tired devil weak
From drinking many vapid, unsought wines.
The sullen skepticism of your eyes,
Forever trying to transcend itself,
Is often entered by a wistful elf
Who sits naively unperturbed and wise.

And this same remnant, with its youthful wiles
Held curiously apart from blasphemies,
Twirls starlight shivers out upon your sneers
And changes them to little startled smiles.
And all your insolence drops to its knees
Before the half-won grandeur of past years.