Passion Story

When seventeen,
I wondered what I would become
when grown into my own fullness
of love,
preferably requited.

Now seventy,
I wonder at what I have been
all along this journey
into Earth's great bounty
of infinite ancestral compassion.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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