Skin, to Skin - Which, is Which?

Snake-like, life -
an endless progression
of skin changings, at times
old, itching, layers sloughed
off due to the course
of age in the inescapable
press of marching of years
moving past want, all need
or deed, passion
and regret; swift,
sure, and irrevocably
ever-forwards - never
backwards.

Or slithering in twisted,
convoluted manners
hither and thither - no
apparent progressions -
but it is there, inexorable
movement past loves
and hates, accomplishment
and failure falling
to the dust despite
desire for a world
where Kierkegaard-ian
philosophies rule.

When not
for age? Skins
become the layers
of onion, rose-petal,
unfurling
with the gentle
brutality
of each personal
evolution.

And who is to say
which is better
than the other?
Skin,
to skin - Which,
is which?

_{(Feb 3, 2011 15:33)}