Growing Older Together And Apart

To D.C

For every opportunity

we Seize

to meet Again

there is an added line

another Rivulet of Time

along the mouth or eye

and of course the Expanding gray

thinning the dark depth

of your hair

Yet beyond the references

of Time, you are forever youthful

lithe and light footed

as years pass you Hover,

unseen, above ground

rising just a tad

with every meeting

As I watch you

I see Myself

the rivulets, the Time

the Thinning Darkness

only I, I tread this earth heavily

with each year my imprint

becomes more defined

further encrusted with Dirt

as if I were to become

more of this Matter

as you become

more of this Ether

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Art Work By Yaron Rosner

 

Of Breath & Bones

I see you from my Distance

Watching those Steadily

Rise, as you have,

Observing them cultivate

Favor, all be it awkwardly,

mistaking  indispensable

Sincerity for

Brawn unwittingly

short-lived

 

Yet you, Continue

Plodding

Clear as to our Condition

Transparent too, as to that

Cellular make up

One which doesn’t Linger

One which doesn’t wait

 

you Smile at the Hubris

of young muscle

(your giving heart

has witnessed

so many)

 

Will they persevere

Upon hitting the Wall

of Time?

Will they, as you do

learn to Harness

Inner Strength?

Summon Might

Learn Beauty,

Power,

All Present

in the Adversity

of an Ageing body?

 

Or will they Break

Retire, knees and hips buckling

As they decline to Bend

to the Inner Sanctum

of Breath and Bones?

 

Art Work by Yaron Rosner

Art Work by Yaron Rosner