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Whispers of Eternity

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I find my eternity in my daughter’s face.
If there is only one single thing I can pass on
to her and my son, then yes,
I might be able to die in peace,
defying all that time has done to us.
Knowing that these wrinkled old hands
with which I type
were once as as vibrantly full
of the pureness and purpose
of our former youth.

And we swore we would die
before we ever got old,
but here we are, and life goes on.
Our eternity lives on,
in other lives and other eyes.

Whispers, soft whispers
of what we were,
and long to be again – but never can….

So let us rejoice in the beauty
which our children may discover.
Let us never dismiss all
that our youth had uncovered.
The secrets we thought were our own.

Let us be brave in the twilight
as they are in their morning sun.

Let us never forget what it was…
what it was
to be young.

©2010, Jim Sabean