If I live till my fighting days are done </br> I must fasten my armour on my eldest son. - Aline Murray Kilmer

I’m sorry you are wiser, </br> I’m sorry you are taller; </br> I liked you better foolish, </br> And I liked you better smaller.

There is a mirror in my room </br> Less like a mirror than a tomb, </br> There are so many ghosts that pass </br> Across the surface of the glass.

Here, Cyprian, is my jeweled looking-glass, </br> My final gift to bind my final vow: </br> I cannot see myself as I once was; </br> I would not see myself as I am now.