Tuesday, May 19, 2009

The Best

We love those and they pass from us.
We offer our hearts and they crumble
Like the dried blossoms of a Summer rose.
We might contemplate eternity
In the fading of a smile in passing
But we will know better; we must feel the end,
When the thought of the sweetest smile
Is confused, forever, with its passing,
For life lies in the flicker of a butterfly's wings
And the groan that we offer as we climb
Through the shadows on the stairs at bedtime.

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