The Face

A Trip through 500 hundred years of Male self-portraits with thanks to YtelSenda1, from whose YouTube channel I got the following

 

Who knows what shaped a face:

what wound, sickness,

words said, memory snagged;

what death, love lost, meals uneaten;

what unkindness, lie, loss;

what disappointment? 

Or was it love gained, then  happiness;

health and plenty;

an easy humour, carefreeness?

Was nature generous?

Or maybe it was all down to a day

when the blood did not run free.