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I HAD FORGOTTEN by CALE YOUNG RICE

First Line: I HAD FORGOTTEN SHE WAS DEAD, THOUGH ONCE I HAD LOVED HER
Last Line: SHALL I NEVER AGE?
Subject(s): DEATH; DREAMS; LOVE; MEMORY; DEAD, THE; NIGHTMARES;
I had forgotten she was dead, though once I had loved her.
It was seeing how she would turn her head
To say goodbye, as she used of old,
That brought her back.

Where, in all the world's flux, is there a dream that will stay!
Once she was all the beauty, all the meaning of night and day to me;
Now she is only a petal I find
At a chance-turned page in the book of the past.

Is she bending her head in the same way
To say goodbye to some other lover?
Why have I opened the book again at this page?
She was dear, once -- and I am still foolishly young.
Shall I never age?



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