Without tomorrow

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    Without tomorrow

    Cascading years, decades beyond my youth

    Dwindling trickles of time slip into darkness

    Slowly, slowly silvered glass reveals a truth

    Age and time have become ravenousness.

    Consuming my body my soul my future

    When did yesterday destroy tomorrow

    And a child succumb to wisdom’s lure

    Belief and hope replaced by my sorrow.

    Sadness for a time of wanting and needing

    As passion and love were beyond as hope

    Forward timely so has lost all meaning

    Each day living becomes a slippery slope.

    Past overtakes a future regretting time

    And in looking back there is little I’m…

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    When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

    John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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