Bonfires of my vanities prove unnecessary
The gentle dishonesty of hoping to impress
Yields to realizing it is hopeless more or less
And impressing is unnecessary anyway
Since you have thought about it and have come back to say
That for some strange reason you care about me (as me)
Which makes me happy but which I hardly understand
To hardly understand is better than not at all
Especially at the hand of someone else's hand
This hand which meets me rising is the spring of my fall
From the author of Jupiter Remembered and Until It’s Time: Embracing Life In Our Later Years comes Petals of Love: Poetry of a Woman’s Soul – a heartfelt collection spanning more than thirty-five years. Through tender reflections, these poems offer g
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