The power of belief

"Awakening (enlightenment) has the quality of youth in it"-C.Trungpa

He was old.
To me he seemed older than time.
Yet the streams in his eyes
Had the quality of morning: transparent. So awake.
I remember how they used to bathe my gaze:
Its opaque fears. Its little fatigues.

Background: a neighbor, a friend of the father. My mother speaks.