She stared at me
Big eyes, black eyeballs deep like the sea
Innocence in them not yet hijacked by age
Unasked questions jostle in her gaze
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As I trudge along to be swallowed by time
only the wounds failing to heal follow me as faithful dogs
Relish of sweets I tasted in life come back but fleetingly
since they don't pinch me in my tattered shoes.
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In the twilight of life as I loll on my rocking chair
My eyes look but do not see all that's around me
I ride piggy back on memory's fragments
To times gone past and lost forever.
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You remain in a cocoon of my fantasy
Fingers of reality not to pry it open
and rupture the henna leaves nestling it in my heart
With your enigma gone, so would you.'
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