Jotted down during a late night view
On AMC channel of meeting scene between
Robert Redford and Mia Farrow in “The Great Gatsby.”
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He cries in the night a life in waiting;
It’s ten years gone since her innocence escaped him
And here is the moment when the world lived.
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Her champagne parade glistens his soft white rooms
And, though the moment weighs upon him,
Her mood is lighter than the clouds.
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He asks, “You didn’t really mean to lose me?”
She says, “The world broke our hearts!”
She spins and smiles and he is suspended,
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But his empire built on a dream fades in it’s lightness;
And his romantic struggle is doomed
In a world that has no respect for love.
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Uncle Larry Songs and Poems 