1.18.2016 [watching faces remember]

watching faces

remember

youth

and heroes

and yearnings

a tweak at the

corner of a

mouth

sharpening

of an eye,

the grin

something fresh

and clean

of ideals

still held

after,

especially after

years of maybe,

of disappointments

and distillations

and disillusions

but also of hopes

fulfilled and

touched

caressed and

received

the flaring up

of recognitions

that we heard it

right

and it wasn’t all

a mask

the tellings of our

youth

spoke truth.

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