I feel the urgent passion of the

young man I was in a body

that’s moving away,

and I see you, the one I desire,

there in your freshness of life,

but across the acreage of years

there cannot be connect,

there must not be more than thought,

the rhetoric is clear,

but here, now, there is-surprise!

welded in the smile, the ache,

the translation from person to person,

the disordering of commonsense

in this defiance wedded to passion.

 

11/11/2025