The Difficult Part Of Love Is Being

I Have Started To Say "a Quarter Of A Century" Or "thirty Years Back" About My Own Life.

Courage Is No Good: It Means Not Scaring Others. Being Brave Lets No One Off The Grave. Death Is No Different Whined At Than Withstood.

My Age Fallen Away Like White Swaddling Floats In The Middle Distance, Becomes An Inhabited Cloud.

Joy Is For The Simple Or The Great To Feel, Neither Of Which We Are.

Since The Majority Of Me Rejects The Majority Of You, Debating Ends Forthwith, And We Divide.'' Philip Larkin