At Age Fifty-eight
This dancer, Anna from Russia, posed willing for an admiring crowed giving of form supreme. I have never seen a Prim ma Ballerina, and a younger man might have been quite smitten. In any other era, I would be considered ancient at age 58. I look with awe at younger people. My tapestry, my living past, recorded, the ancient legacy, individual, relinquished, as I move forward with less before me than is behind, and I look at youth as my ignorance, my lack of wisdom then but my wasted time, the knowledge that no man can condom an other's life.