SOS, Desperate

I am desperately tracing the outlines of my varicose veins
Touching the skin tags on my face and the lines on my throat
The curve of my belly and my over-abundant breasts
For something lost.

Something that my gleaming spectacles
And my cellulite have not fully forgotten
As the brightness
The lightness
The quickened gasp
The flutter in the heart
The hope and the charm
Of romance.