May 15, 2012 23:11
An old man in autumn
or his woman in hers, need
but a chattering child or two,
to feel their spring again.
But small children are few now
and often distant too; so
the old man and his woman felt
a winter seep instead.
Said Vasudeva, the world is
your family, and therefore in
their neighbour's home, learnt they
to imagine their more fleeting own.