This Poem was Submitted By: Patricia Anne Travers On Date: 2001-06-17 16:19:34 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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"Old Love"

It always amazes the old man when he looks at the woman by his side, that the passing years have not changed her since he took her for his bride. His fading eyesight skips over the wrinkled cheeks and brow, and lingers instead on the pretty girl sitting where the old woman sits now. The blue-veined hands that rocked their babes and pulled him closer each night, still fix his meals, and pat his face, and make his world seem right. He reaches over and picks up a hand worn with time like an old kid glove, and he places a kiss in the pretty girl's palm - she will always be his love. Now some say youth's passions are sweetest and young love is far more sublime, but the love of the old, like the purest of gold, is refined in the furnace of time.

Copyright © June 2001 Patricia Anne Travers


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