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Old woman
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Azanian Love Song 59 Old woman From a photograph of Diana Green, aged 96 Time’s pins have pierced my limbs Rivers of wrinkle Bend and twist on my aged face Eyes have lost their sparkle I am old now It was not always so Once Time and I were partners We chased the setting sun Through fields of sunflower and corn And there was fire in my eyes Yellow and orange like my skin And I was young Those were the days Before machines gave birth To concrete cities When you could buy a pound For two pennies See a rainbow smile And catch a bowl of sunbeams Dripping on the horizon But those days are gone And now I am old ...