A Bachelor's Prayer

In my life, G-d
let me not
forget you
what I meant to you,
you to me,
together we completed
what the world was meant to be

And
In my final days
let me not
look back in remorse
wondering
what would have been
for joy was lost
in fantasies
of irreversibles
and people I envied

But
most of all
In my final days
Let me not
see the writings of my youth
My dreams and quests, my truths,
and laugh
at the innocence
of an idealistic life
of hopes
destined to fade
as my father
from my mind