Promises of Peace

Promises of Peace I've seen many old strong heads to which age is beautiful Grace of youth is all beyond; they have all been strangely quiet, Soundless, health and integrity is known to the full Strangely enough they've been in life well a tempered by it, Alas there walks a young man has not slept his years are at war So of foreign and civil integrity but the formers worse, But now the old can breathe now in safety they are They have forgotten what youth meant; nor has being perverse, Then the fools running the gauntlet alas getting cut Of the five senses by whips and especially by me, I wish to live long, so long as if it were but For all in good trades in those fevers tranquility, Been thinking as though of entire and of sweet in the grave So how shall the dead taste the all-inclusive deep treasure they have. Written: 11/21/14 Theresa Marie C.