COMING OF AGE

Your death date is but six years off.
If I live, on that day
we shall be united
by our common age. 

What will it be like
to wake that morning knowing
that this day was your last?

I would like to chat,
compare notes, to see
if you had clues to wisdom
picked up along the way
that I had overlooked.

In return, there would be
little I had learned
that you did not know -
the recapitulating errors, twists,
entwining turns of your life
comprise one strand of
the double helix
that then codes mine.