We were young and beautiful.
     We tasted each other and feasted
     on our banquet. I smell you still
     I'm 73 and you're beside me in bed
     in dreams that are more alive
     than my daily crawling to death.

I thought I saw you there naked and alone
Like a wish I made at Christmas all dressed in earthen tones
All misty water color hues and clouds with sunshine on
Fading into rainbows that smiled and were gone
Beside the mighty ocean with its thundering primal tide
Your savage beauty's innocence shone from deep inside
I love you once , I love you twice , I love you for all time
To me you are perfection in syncopated rhyme
I always knew I'd find you there I know you with my mind
A place where I have always been and may never leave behind
I bring to you my hopes and dreams things that may never be
To dwell with you forever beside our lonely tree

I'll walk with you tomorrow along the endless shore, while the primal tides are beckoning what has never been before.

I've been here before. I know
  the drill, the prayers, the coffee
  and stale cookies we learn to love.
  Some are court ordered going through
  the motions. Some are earnest with
  hope in their eyes. We're all addicts.
  We want to live in a different place
  where we change it to suit our needs.
  Forget the past. Let it grieve itself.
  We must move beyond *******.