The distant drifter lived alone;
The youth in me discerned him weird:
No faith, no phantom friend to phone—
The grown-up man I feared.
No hope to harp, no creed to drum,
No soul to bleed through wounds unseared,
His frequent muse: that I’ve become
The grown-up man I feared.
Ed Morris, 2022
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