You Are Very Young My Love
YOU ARE VERY YOUNG MY LOVE
You were born sniffing the air of the China Seas
And I was a boy climbing trees
As you learned new school songs and odes
I was building towns and roads
You were blooming twenty when my hair was thin
I was sleeping when you scarred your skin
While you were managing, hurrying
My faltering pace became worrying
Your beauty sleeps next to my wrinkled face
You will always be second in time’s race.
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