Centuries come
& go.
Time visits
the earth
& blows away
like wind...like rain.
The only thing
that survives
are these words
words of love.
I laugh
at how
this man from so long ago
can tell me
excactly how I feel
as Love
leaves me.
Dónall Dempsey
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ah-so/