the child ahead of you walking
through a season you can no longer enter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The light belongs to them now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The way older musicians
listen to young players discovering intervals,
The miracle of arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A melody carried forward
Themes returning in altered form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You age quietly beside them.
Friends disappearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet when your daughter smiles
or your son turns suddenly in sunlight,
something impossible occurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You hear your own vanished youth
echoing in theirs
the way a final chord contains
all the earlier chords hidden within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And for one suspended instant
aging no longer feels like loss but counterpoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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