(for Tom) Recourseless Regrets

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This reminds me of the play Prelude to a Kiss by Craig Lucas. Great movie, too. He so wanted to be in that young body and she so wanted to just be done with it they swapped. It also has one of the best expressions of knowing another person that I've seen pulled off. A winner.

The poem: also a winner.
You've pretty much avoided that yoda stuff except for L2, it would be a shame not to fix it, it gets off to a bad start, misleading for such a natural sounding poem. You pretty much touched all the bases.

My favorites:

It really is a quite lovely day with pollen covered trees,
the bees are out collecting sweets, but all I do is sneeze,

for the sound of it,

You know I miss my wife in ways I never thought I would,
I realize only now that what we had was really good.
God bless her soul I should have gone then too,
now I just sit here with nothing left to do.

for the bluntness and commonality of the situation,

Old folks because of pride we make ourselves all liars,
but miss the passion, yes we do and that burning desire,

for truth.

And the whole switching bodies part was fun.
Good one.