Your towering beauty I wish I could see
up close and personal,
every imperfection, every slighted line,
and how I wish I could have known
you when I was younger
and with conceited youth know
I could have conquered you,
loved you and have every inch
of you mapped in my mind
forever.
You are older than I,
yet so very young,
and I find myself disgracefully suffering
from the illusion that you,
in some respects,
have a daily virginal quality to you