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From "Young"—ca. 2010-2011

Those words from young mouths
with young minds feeling strong
and, in running, were drawing near
to that place left long ago.
Bedecked with years,
but which nostalgia commands
us to never find again, lest it lose its
censure of our happiness
and claim to our souls.

I asked the singer, play the song,
and he played it seven times.
I sat alone in that room and thought
and cried silently for that former life.