LETTING GO
At the end
things pass away
into a hard won perspective.
The sepia photographs
of childhood
like twilight encounters
with eternity
and the youthful
laughter pealing
across a mountainside.
Standing close together
we make our vows
in front of others
knowing
with a backward
kind of courage
that everything
passes
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