Fountain Of Youth Poem by Bryan Riley

Fountain Of Youth



The Fountain of Youth
was never a thing-
it was an idea;
the idea that
our deeds would
be remembered
long after
our passing

so that even we,
princes of the
peasant class,
could achieve
(at least)
SOME small
measure of
immortality

Bryan Riley
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: aging
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