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On a Photo of My Now-Elderly Parents Embracing Their Grandson
October 5, 2018

You notice your parents’ aging as you do your own:
Not at all, then in a photo, all at once.

There the pain of happiness fading:
The moment after the embrace,
The walk down the jetway,
The plane disappearing in clouds of blue.

Mom is holding Richard, rooted.
Dad has one arm around him, eyes half-closed—
The bliss of a moment long-awaited.
And though Richard won’t remember,
In some distant future fast approaching he will delight
That grandma and grandpa, long deceased,
Held him with a love so deep, it still
Defies that tender tyrant—time.

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Priya Devarajan
October 7, 2019 at 12:38 am
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Beautiful Andy!!



    Andy
    October 7, 2019 at 12:49 am
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    Thank you, Priya! It’s so nice to have people engage with my posts. yaaay!

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