~For Michael Sweet~

I’m no acquaintance to the world at large;
Nuance and politics get the best of me
And elder eyes often scoff at
My effervescent naïveté,
Thinking this I cannot see

But when I turn to you,
Your confidence,
Your experience,
Your charisma,
Self-assuredness,
Just-plain-coolness,
And the wisdom in all you have to say,
Every extraneous hollow...