There is not much that will endure
or will help you to endure, so when you find that
it may have found you.
Many things might make you quit, give up
lose belief
but somehow, if you do them
they stay alive in you
for one more day, at least
like an old photograph
that isn’t tossed away
into a dump.
My aunt has a picture of herself in black and white
from World War 2
Her beauty is undeniable
in that picture.
She’s 95 now
so, she was 23 then
when she claims
a soldier kissed her.
Who knows if that’s true
Now, she makes up everything.
I have a picture like that
where I am a handsome man.
I can see it standing up
looking at me
when I’m 95.
If the morning is young
and the evening is old
I have lived my life well
each day
because I celebrated the sun
and the darkness
was full of mystery.
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