Youthful Gaze

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Those young eyes

So full of hope

So happy and joyful

So unlike my own


Mine are dark

Full of swimming emotion

Death and sorrow

Tainting the youthful look


"Let me live! Let me laugh!"

I beg and plead

But never do they release

The tsunami of emotion


That youthful gaze

So happy and complete

That haggard gaze

That's never released


That youthful gaze

I will never have

Such hopeful eyes

Never to be seen


You laugh and smile

While I unable

The innocence

I may never have

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