Just one iota 
of that teenaged brio,
utterly fearless in the way 
slim life allows, 
would power our souls for 
whole years

fears, as they come, 
are whispered on sharp minutes,
on slow hour memories,
on broken days, lost
in an oubliette 
desperate for a single glimmer

youth can be reckless
self-sabotaged and trite
but by god, 
there are lessons in the might of it
in spite of it
if we stop, 
look 
and listen

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