I wish that you were old and weathered <br />that wrinkles irrigated your face <br />that your hair was a halo of white <br />that your bones ached <br />and that you complained <br />with coughs and curses <br />about your great old age <br /> <br /> <br />rather than <br />Death held you <br />young & forever <br />locked in the center <br />of his ageless eye.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-wish-that-you-were-old-and-withered-for-junie/
