In his mind he remained physically
invulnerable. In part, this was to com-
pensate for the vulnerability and lack
of control he felt in losing love. If he
couldn’t control that, he sure as hell
could control how to tempt fate in
physical daring do’s, which he did
until a mountain biking accident where
one nano-second made the difference
and he just missed being a vegetable.
He liked the meat on his bones so he
put away childish things and grew up
at the young and tender age of fifty-
four. He thinks about those lost loves
and as he looks in his heart he realizes
that the love for them has not gone away
and so, neither have they.