"Andrew On Prostitutes" 
by Gibran Khalil Gibran 

SEVENTY

The poet youth said to the princess, "I love you." And the princess answered, "And I love
you too, my child." 

"But I am not your child. I am a man and I love you." And she said, "I am the mother of
sons and daughters, and they are fathers and mothers of sons and daughters; and one of
the sons of my sons is older than you." 

And the poet youth said, "But I love you." It was not long after that the princess died. But
ere her last breath was received again by the greater breath of earth, she said within
her soul, "My beloved, mine only son, my youth-poet, it may yet be that some day we
shall meet again, and I shall not be seventy."