Efflorescence

In her teens, as she filled out and bloomed,
A new life of adventure soon loomed…
Boys with cars (smooch and cruise),
Parties, drugs, sex and booze…
To all this, not unpleasantly, doomed.

Dress code

Gosh, she thought, all these people are staring…
Perhaps it’s this dress that I’m wearing…
It’s see-through, I guess…
Like I’m nude, more or less…
For a funeral, maybe too daring!

Herd mentality

He was just a bloke, one of the herd…
He liked sex, if and when it occurred…
Sometimes win, often fail…
No big alpha-male,
Which, though, he’d have rather preferred.