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Wrinkled hands clutch worn wooden canes,
Shuffling past, unseen, unheard, unnamed.
You rush by, averting eyes from my weathered face,
Blind to the tapestry of years I've laced.
Once, ______ danced in Singapore's gilded halls,
Fled war's fury, scaled fortune's falls.
I loved a pilot who kissed the sky,
______ crash, my heart's unending cry.
I wandered Europe's cobbled streets,
Penned verses of loss and bittersweet.
In Seville's sun, ______ found my stage,
A genteel beggar, an artful sage.
______ see a crone, a burden, naught but old,
Not ______ tales of fire and ice I hold.
My eyes, ______ dimmed, have witnessed war and peace,
My voice, though soft, once made the mighty cease.
If I should stumble, ______ upon the stone,
You'd rush to help, but only ______ and bone
Would you perceive – not spirit, not ______ soul
That burns still bright, though body's no longer whole.
You pat my hand, all pity, no real care,
______ that you'll never be caught in age's snare.
But ______ ticks on, relentless in its march,
And you too ______ pass beneath its arch.
Remember, then, these words from ______ who knows:
Behind each lined face, a universe grows.
______ every elder's step, a lifetime treads,
Invisible worlds crown ______ silver heads.