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Three Ages

History was a subject in school

How things came to be as they are.

All too soon “Are” and “Is”

become “Was.”

History grows bigger

digesting you

and everything you hate

or love

with Change.

The role you play changes

well behaved student - push and shove

explorer planting flags in life and love,

Dancing with your special one

till tasks on the treadmill are never done.

Hopefully you’ll play again

in the gold afternoon of your shared sun

ignoring the retreating light

yet bursting to tears over geese in flight.

Look to the glowing embers

not the dark,

Pleasures and Remembers

render it much less stark.

And when I am

and when I do

among my greatest glories:

my history with you.

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Thank YOU

for being here!

Fondly, cloudia