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POEM DAMN YOU! FROM "TWO POETS"

damn you why do you enter my life now? why not when I was young when my skin was fair no wrinkles there when my hair was black as coal damn you Why did you enter my life now? now that the wrinkles show now when my hair is more silver than black now where there is no hope long since a marriage gone bad long since the children we could have had are lost in the winds of time damn you why do you enter my life now? is it to mock me how can someone so fine enter my life now now that there is so little time damn you you could not know how much I would love you for maybe then you wouldn't have brought your love to bear damn you I never wanted and loved so much to hunger for a gentle touch to cry in the night of lonely dreams Damn you