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Vision's Gift

Kurt Philip Behm

The older I get…
  the closer I become to the things I can’t see

The older I get…
  the more I’m amazed by the things that surround me

The older I get…
  the longer the nights and the dreams that they bring

The older I get…
  empty words falling mute—each new season to sing

The older I get…
  those women that I loved I now carry inside

The older I get…
  that child I once was to return with a smile

The older I get
  the deeper I embrace the reason I’m here

The older I get
  each moment a gift—with its vision so clear

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2018)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 10, 2018

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Scheme Ab Ab Ac Ac Ax Ax Ax Ax x
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 567
Words 109
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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