what young ones sense
yet can’t quite see
the future immense
but vaster is me

a love once craved
lust’s benevolent trick
by temperance we’re saved
despite ego so thick

who you wanted at first
she no longer exists
but weathered you the worst
her Goddess persists

no spirits come known
by dint of kiss in spring
even you yourself have grown
to wish so trite a thing

_______RS

[ Note: Happened across a not too old non-blockbuster Johnny Depp movie two weeks ago, and a quote right near the end seeded this little piece. ] 

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