Tidbits

Prime Timers

by MJM 

I found myself alone in a new world,
my old one having crumbled into dust.
For I had reached a point in life
where “who I am” needed to come out.
So, who were now my family in truth,
and how was I to enter a new place?
At first it was just telling those I loved
who all could not supply the new milieu.
Though no one put a blame on me
or told me I was doomed, I knew
I needed a new group of brothers who
knew the inner yearnings that I felt.
So, there they were these men to welcome
my lonely searching self now free to be.
Delightful brothers of the world I craved,
no judgment, only celebration of our truth.
Though they had aged with lovers in their past,
some still standing in their loving bond,
I found a different past to listen to,
and stories I could only never know.
But I do know that we are made to love
while in the flesh we walk the troubled earth;
and I give thanks that now I have
these men, my peers, to love at last.