Opportunities and challenges afford us
the chance for an honest love.

what then say you to the aspersions

you cast long and freely at my feet?

written upon my face in lines of life’s

trials the victories and defeats

launched by a hundred unconcerned

adversaries

when she came, lingerie woman crusty

with whimsy loving with genuine passion

the light of love began to flicker from

the lamp long ago dashed with indignation

as truth stuttered sparkled and flamed

now in a year of months with weeks of

day’s prominence is a practiced art

so we waltz Charleston and shimmy

shimmy shake shake and laugh loudly

why was this pathway section closed

to me when I wore a young man’s suit?

while I openly aver my pleasure that the

road has fortuitously granted me entry