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THESE THINGS FADE

 

These things fade

Perfect cars

Stately homes

Features fine and youthful

            Strength unbounded

            Speed at the call

            Up to full speed

            Beach at low tide

                        Experiential empathy

                        Feeling back to who it was

                        Those atoms long gone

                        Memories impressed on new cells

                        From those which lingered

Long enough to tell of the magic

Flowers, your voice, soft breeze

You were there truly

I remember

            Yet with no one left

            Who remembers with me

            That youth has left with wolves

Beckoning mercilessly at night

By dawn gone twenty miles

Dawn on the backside of Tam

Redwood Creek

Curving through my spine

            As in your arms again

            I see myself at twenty

Free of all ill will

Free of wisdom from the trail

            Omniscient insight

            Into my own sense of self

That now like all of my selves

Has departed             

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