New Beginnings

All alone in my silent confessions 
  long I have dwelt on secret battles fought,
and poison arrows of those obsessions 
  alas might pierce my last refuge methought.
But having crossed my Rubicon I wait
  in new beginnings, in love’s boons to be
where new battles will rage and punctuate
  the fullness of time in his century.
To that cause I am heart and soul aware
  and exceptional favour bears me more,
that in my time I’ll have a son and heir
  who fills in me what was missing before.
Soon I will hail on a day still to dawn
to me a millennia child is born.


          Written: January 2000

                    For Oscar
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025


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Date: 5/28/2025 10:00:00 PM
I am happy for you. And for your son too.
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Keith D Trestrail
Date: 5/29/2025 11:52:00 PM
Thanks Hilda. When they handed over the baby they forgot to give me an instruction booklet. No guarantee or warranty either. Any idea where I can get one? Cheers.
Date: 5/26/2025 5:12:00 AM
Awww Keith does have a softer side after all. Sweet tribute to your newborn. So.. he's 25?
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Tom Woody
Date: 5/26/2025 6:15:00 AM
Circa 1982 but deffo a 70's carryover. "C'mon get happy..."
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Keith D Trestrail
Date: 5/26/2025 6:05:00 AM
You look about 25 in that new pic. A very 70s look. Got some Keith Partridge vibes going on. C’mon, sing us a few bars!
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Tom Woody
Date: 5/26/2025 5:55:00 AM
Let's hope he gets to keep the hair ;). Mine will be 43 in August
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Keith D Trestrail
Date: 5/26/2025 5:28:00 AM
Yep, 25. He has the long hair and attitude to go with it but he’s a vast improvement on his prototype (me) at that age.
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