My Words – Hemingway To Gertrude Stein

Are those thoughts you put in

what I once valued more

 

Or would what I put out

be the end winning score

 

Did I need your ears

for my voice to become whole

 

Or would I rather them deafened

words deep in my soul

 

In my twenties your opinion

carried some weight

 

In my thirties I listened

but asked you to wait

 

In my forties I turned

and walked slowly away

 

Now alone in the twilight

—to carry the day

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

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