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jwesley
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0 posted 2009-10-17 01:05 PM



Immortalized (from Boyhood Tales)

You haven’t been subject to life
in so many years . . .
today I’m amazed how large
the pile of them has grown,
and even when me I see reflected
is so different from what it used to be,
I see you as seventeen,
unchanged . . . immortal,
while I have aged with the gray,
of fifty more years.
Immortal, the photograph in my wallet
just out of sight of eyes
that may not understand
its place therein.
Seventeen,
when the paths we walked
diverged, and you . . .
you became,
immortalized.

© wesley james beard, jr.
    october 2009

© Copyright 2009 Wesley James Beard, Jr. - All Rights Reserved
Midnitesun
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Gaia
1 posted 2009-10-17 02:18 PM


Hi Jimmy.
It's amazing what a photo can do to your mind and memory banks!

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
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2 posted 2009-10-17 05:01 PM


Good or bad, there is nothing quite like a blast to the past.~L
suthern
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3 posted 2009-10-19 09:16 AM


I see you as seventeen,
unchanged . . . immortal,
while I have aged with the gray,

I like this very much! *S*

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