Time Is Cruel, It Knows Not Love Or Youth

In rabbit’s fur I find you
touching it you come to mind
can’t stop feeling the memory
your alabaster pink thighs elicit

Horses on the right gallop away at full speed past me
lions on the left hungry are always looking for prey
my heart screams as the lamb quietly eats 
unaware the lion approaches

In the warmth of your smile the sun runs and hides 
you look beautiful tending the fragrant gardenia garden 
the one you cultivated with your caring hands
always singing beautiful melodies to them

Your tongue plays with your lips 
I crumble like an Oreo cookie in milk 
my anxious heart crushed
I lay myself like a tame animal at your feet

Organ grinders! Grind that love song
the one we made love to on that sorrowful night 
in the winter of her death
that soon after brought loneliness and old age

I cry not for myself
but for the beautiful love we shared 
memories we shared are inculcated in my soul 
filling the many notebooks I wrote of you 

Those passions stirring in me don't won't die
overwhelming this old man's mind to tears
I recall endless seasons we frolicked loving for hours
talking about our wonderful future that lay just ahead
 
Did we know our time together was finite?
No, we did not 
We were too involved with each other to notice
Young people never notice the dissipation of time

My advice to you young lovers
the urgency is now to make each embrace last a lifetime
love and treasure each other 
and kiss as if each kiss was the last

Don't look at your good fortune and feel your love is everlasting
because you are young and found love, it is not
time is cruel it knows not love nor youth
the devil can pop up anytime

Youth in love cares not what tomorrow may bring
but tomorrows of constant toil and anguish, loss and sacrifice 
missing now are surreptitiously hiding 
lurking around the corner and are nearer than you think.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018



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