Vanishing Truth

          Vanishing Truth

Each meeting is the start of parting.  Who

He might become or who she might become,

No matter what, what finally comes through

Is vacuum.  Each beauty will succumb.

Your newborn son will grow and go away—

And he will die.  Perhaps you will precede

Him.  Yes, the one or other will be prey

To death.  Your pink-face daughter will accede

To death, no matter what.  That man you loved,

However many times he entered your

Insides (your heart and other organs), shoved

His way inside them, tries in love to cure

The truth that every meeting is the start

Of parting, trying to deceive your heart.