Seventy-Eight/Sixty-Eight

Myself now at age seventy-eight, 

My lady now at age sixty-eight

My lady and myself

Both whom may be considered...

Actually both

My lady and myself

Are considered as "older"

"Older" however

Does not mean passionless

For we

As those not yet considered as "older'

May wonder of "older" passion

For now passion may have a different meaning

For now the sense of the warmth of my lady

For now the sense of the warmth of myself

Still closeness and touch are with us

Though the sight and feel of her

Though the sight and feel of me

Still move our humanistic senses

The passion of now

May not mean the breathless

Sharp release of our yesterdays

But more so the ongoing sense of wonder

More so the ongoing sense of being held

Body to body, flesh to flesh

Closely within the arms of one so dearly loved

The need of fulfillment for the one loved

The need of self-fulfillment still there

However in a softer sense

For the physiological changes within

My lady and within myself

Do not always allow for the breathless

Sharp release of our yesterdays

But always for the sense of wonder

Always for the ongoing sense of being held

Body to body, flesh to flesh

Closely within the arms of one so dearly loved.

©April 22 /2013 Mark M. Lichterman