Retirement

we pass through stone asking for things to touch

employment done our work is on the wing

the hole inside is like a tomb opened after years of faith

and there remained no more than these words

let me not grow old

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 3 February 1667.

Dave Bonta

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