I Pretend That I Am Young Again

I PRETEND THAT I AM YOUNG AGAIN I pretend that I am young again And just setting out And that I know I am going to change the world With my words And create a kind of great literature No one has known before- I pretend I am young again But when I begin to write I hear my old pages within me I slowly tortuously reread The dreams and the failures And I know I am not young again- I know Beginning is really just holding on And ‘pretending to be young' One small maneuver In a long battle Whose end is certainly determined.