Mandi

A Broken Old Man

In a corner an old man sat

Rags for clothes and tousled hair

He fiddled with his thumbs

His heart no longer had a care

 

He had given up hope

It was something he no longer recognized

He was all alone in this world

Everything was dark in his poor eyes

 

In the fog a vision of beauty appeared

Golden hair and full of life

Floating toward him with a smile

It was his long lost loving wife

 

His is heart felt alive once more

As she took him through their past

And he knew what it was like to feel again

He was with her now at last

 

She started to fade away

He lost her where did she go

But before he sunk back to dispair

He saw her elegant glow

 

It was like living life all over again

His memories played out before him

Then she was running ahead calling him forth

Everything around went very dim

 

He was still there in that corner

Now with eyes closed tight

But a smile rest peacfully upon his lips

Ragged clothes and tousled hair in the pale night