Best Toughened Poems

If life is just but memories
then I have far too many;
sorrows I had lost count of
and happy endings so few.

Yet the pains accumulated 
through all the hard years 
only make rare times of joy 
so much sweeter to savor
by this toughened heart.

Seasoned by the seasons,
fired...

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remember you,
who do you suppose
you are to me that you feel
I ought to worry much about
how I might be or seem to you?
still you're afloat in admiring awe
at  your mirror  view of  you and you;
but then I, now profusely bleeding,
shall in time...

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