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THE DIFFERENCE by ANGELO PHILIP BERTOCCI

First Line: YOU SPOKE ONE WORD
Last Line: I HAD GROWN OLD!
Subject(s): AGING; DREAMS; YOUTH; NIGHTMARES;
You spoke one word,
And tender wisps of rose and sunset flush
Withered to ashes;
One word,
And the song broke, and nothing filled the hush
But fishes' splashes;
It was a word
While glad dreams bubbled skywards, free and wild,
And boasts were bold;
One word --
Alas, my love, I who had come a child,
I had grown old!



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