Yesterday’s Love

We were the youngest of lovers

Crossing the threshold of desire

Impatient and heated

Souls burning with the fires of youth

Bathing in the sureness of immortality

I shook my fists at the world

Then hid inside you for refuge

Sanctuary from an uncaring world

Now I am ancient

Shadows of crosses dull my eyes

So many years have slid past

Since first we touched each other’s hearts

Our young love still consumes my thoughts

Fills my passions

As if it were but yesterday

 

Rain

A lot of people are like a soft summer rain. They blow into your life and everything is refreshing and exciting. But eventually the clouds move on and you are left wet and miserable.

Retirement

36 years have gone by way to fast

I built relationships I thought would last

It’s retirement day and I finally understand

I mean no more to them than the corner trash can

Too Old For New York City

Winter in that city ripped the warmth from my soul.

All those faceless people with frozen hearts and minds,

Alive but not living, pushing… rushing…struggling

Like rats scuttling in and out of nameless places

 

Life there was for dreamers and only the young have

Any dreams left to give. There’s no inspiration

There for a man too old for imagination.

Not there among all those hurried, screaming masses

Life

The stone is set

My die has been cast

What the future brings

Will slide into the past

No amount of want

Will ever make it stay

It will fade to memories

Of yesterday