Thursday, June 16, 2022

Wife, I'm getting older . . .

 

Wife, I'm getting older, and the flame of passion

flags;

my heart for you still thunders, but is muffled by stale rags.

I take you in my arms, my lusty wench, and then regret

that I've become a rag doll with no hardened bayonet.

Eight children did we have so long ago it seems a yarn

we tell now to each other while my socks you sit and darn.

Still and all, though parts of me no longer do their duty,

I'll not forget, but cry up thanks, for your eternal beauty! 

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