Stuart smiles and responds softly,

"As you get older you begin to wonder -
what was all that lightning and thunder
actually about?
It was more than holding hands,
it had a lot to do with glands -
but now you're far out,

floating calmly in a lonely seascape;
very long ago
left behind - what they call Youth
seems now ridiculous, uncouth
(if you want to know).

As you settle into peace, or dourness,
that bitter-sweet, that sweet-and-sourness
is a vanished state;
yet those who never clasped and kissed
don't know exactly what they missed
or what exactly went to waste."