Fifty More Circles

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
I don’t want to get older, but they say that I must.
I want to believe that I’m still twenty-one,
But it’s fifty more circles I’ve run round the sun.

Whenever I’m weary, the one thing I’m sure of
Is nothing is sweeter or purer than your love
You are the meaning, you’re what it’s about
You are my engine, of that there’s no doubt 

I wake up beside you and I become strong
You give me a heartbeat, you won’t let me go wrong
To do what I got to till the day I go bust
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust

1/7/23

Copyright © 2025 by Michael Kim Roos

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