Rather than to creed or to custom

Old men aren’t being old men – They’re being the younger man when he first came to be, to be who he was, to be who HE was – 16 or 17 year old selfhoods They’re bein’ in the hood.

Even after the object of that initial love moves away from one’s life – you’re left with that unmet longing, as a continuing presence, alongside all the other presences in your world and in your self