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Salute.
All I've ever wanted
All my life
Is to feel truly alive
Someone to love me
From early morning
To way past midnight
After a white winters
Christmas
Sunrise
But like all things
Which shimmer
Evocatively
Like much converted
Gold
It's a dream
I still hold onto
Even now
As I grow
Slowly old
Where are you
Wherever you be
Will you find me
Before I cross over
God's golden countries
And swim in its purple
Seas
I once dreamed
An emancipated dream
Dreamed I'll be happy
To parade
For all to see
I was never young
But born
So very old
I've lived a lifetime
Where my memories
And poetic stories
Will be continuously retold
But it's a lonely
Life as I hear
The hooves of the
Track Master approaching
Who haunts all things
Which currently dances
To life's slow grooves
But I'm indomitable
And will face these last
Few years filled
With such grace
And when I see
The Almighty
I'll ask him face to face.
And say
Where was my
One and only
The one to hold
Me tightly
And kiss away
All those
Tears
Wherever I was
Sad and so lonely
On that cold sleigh
Copyright John Duffy
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