Time,
the Great Dwindler,
is not lazy,
never tires,
sustains its pernicious assault
against the aging man.
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Now The Answers Will Come
Time,
the Great Dwindler,
is not lazy,
never tires,
sustains its pernicious assault
against the aging man.
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Was that the wind
A tempest blew,
Or ‘stead,
Vestiges of my life
Gone whooshing by?
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Cast me ashes to the sky
When done my time to be,
As the winsome butterfly,
Free
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it is no less said of him,
there be no greater stalwart,
his loyalty underscored
and stone-hardened by his Departure.
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