Hear their sweet voices whispering the silence of heavens
Faces light in the dark mines of memories
Diamonds and rubies gleam in time passed
Lovers lay in sweet embrace
All turned to dust in the furies of my lust and wandering youth
I oft ask would I have slowed my pace for you
Been surrounded with the fruits of our shared love
Loving you with wrinkles and arthritis and gout
Now young and beautiful in life’s fullness
An old man bent and broken I shall be
Would I see this, my love again with mine eyes
So I may hold her like the time with no end
Worshiping as a mortal at her temple, divine immortality
For an old man bent and broken I shall be
Jeffrey M. Hopkins is the author of Broken Under Interrogation, a book about neither youth nor love. It is a book about war and the price of coming home.
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