I had such great expectations of old age - being
at ease in my skin - but no, it has not happened
yet - just spent today as confused within the loss
of chronology as I was in my youth, just not able
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Tha last 7 lines are absolutel perfection, closed mind which opposes every sunny idea.....wow!
This is a very moving poem and distressing too. But we are here, we who admire your verse and fine intellect. This blackness is difficult to cope with but if you open up as you have done here, people will reach out and grasp you hand. Anyway it's a 10 for a very fine poem. So put that in your pipe and smoke it! Tom Billsborough