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He marvels
that a woman
can love a man
older than she, herself.
As if we all stack chips to a height
we expect all others to reach
but not to exceed.
But I have seen
one such miracle too many;
I have been the victim
of an unlikely affair
like theirs; where power
and money
and age
and forgetfulness
rocked decency to a shamed sleep
at the expense of those too innocent to watch.
And yet,
in the longest silence,
the grand old image resurfaces:
a man with shaking hands,
a woman like a stained glass window...
He is twenty eight
and I am only nineteen,
but when that powerful mouth curves
around the syllables of my name,
I know that I know that I'll know
that he is the kind --
that no man beneath me
deserves to be beneath me.
But still, that man --
he marvels at the distance between twenty
and "much much older"
like these things never happen.
I told this dreamer, this distracted idealist
the most important parts of my story.
He is (how old?)
and I am only nineteen:
I cannot help but wonder why he asks.

Description
He marvels
that a woman
can love a man
older than she, herself.
As if we all stack chips to a height
we expect all others to reach
but not to exceed.
But I have seen
one such miracle too many;
I have been the victim
of an unlikely affair
like theirs; where power
and money
and age
and forgetfulness
rocked decency to a shamed sleep
at the expense of those too innocent to watch.
And yet,
in the longest silence,
the grand old image resurfaces:
a man with shaking hands,
a woman like a stained glass window...
He is twenty eight
and I am only nineteen,
but when that powerful mouth curves
around the syllables of my name,
I know that I know that I'll know
that he is the kind --
that no man beneath me
deserves to be beneath me.
But still, that man --
he marvels at the distance between twenty
and "much much older"
like these things never happen.
I told this dreamer, this distracted idealist
the most important parts of my story.
He is (how old?)
and I am only nineteen:
I cannot help but wonder why he asks.