As we approach the sunset
Of our final seasons the cutting continues
As our neurons are pruned
Memories dissolved
Names, places, identities forged
by a lifetime of tearing
The sounds and sensations
Of soft surrender and hard decisions
Are sheared like so much unneeded hair
By a grand design of DNA
And a deity we yearn to know–
The words and deeds
Of our youth
Set free from time and context,
And we become a child yet again.
Then there is the final cut-–
The plucking and pulling of threads
Of the warp and weft
Unraveling the fabric
We have woven with
With passion and pain
With first kisses
And last calls
With embraces too short
And departures too long
With half-hearted protests
And missed milestones muted
By indecision and indifference
Tempered by the kiln of time
By small victories
And great expectations
We hang by a thread –
An umbilical cord
It is these–
These measures of life
We cling to as we
Drift towards
Our psychic collages of God
Redemption, just a cut away
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