Ai dual c2

Old in the tooth
with eyes that still
identify true beauty
will
those eyes with eyebrows
turning white
be looking at, beauty
tonight
or will they look at
4 bare walls
an empty bed
and a cat that calls
the tune who knows
she rules the place
mildly mannered and
full on grace

For years I searched
the canal side
walked my legs off
where did she hide?
somewhere in amongst the reeds
and all the while my old heart
bleeds

then I saw her
could it be
there she was
in front of me
that amazing face
those amazing eyes
Oh God I did so realise
my heart was pounding in my chest
I could feel it,
yes right through my vest
that hair oh I remember well
those insert rainbow colours, swell
and dance again, that autumn day
I was transfixed
that I could say

Hello Darling how are you?
and she smiled
oh god, I broke into
she remembered me
and that sweeping smile
she hadn’t changed, one bit,
such style
her shiny leggings
the clothes she wore
she smiled
I melted
I was sure
My legs were jelly
once again
and my searching
had not been in vain

old in the tooth
but feeling calm
resolute insight
and some charm
an experience of how to be
loving, and caring earnestly
unlike the young
so arrogant
so abusive
hot, maybe
a six pack
an armani suit
but they can’t
compete with me

My goddess
such a sweet refrain
I was back in love again
old in the tooth
maybe so
but this time
I dare not let her go
great stars of light
and looking right
the way she walks
the way she smiles
the way she breathes
all those miles
searching, hoping one day you
would find
her
and today you do

the need to care
the need to be
in love again
and just feel free
to smother her
with gifts galore
to want to please her
for evermore
to realise the years
now left
cannot and must not be
bereft
you can give her
so much, and she
with just one smile
does it for thee

abandoned
no not any more
just wrestling with
a heart that’s sore
in many ways
to be in touch
you really needed that so much