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Patience I quoted in my first Valentine

As fifty years ago I did not write

Poetry, and probably lacked the time &

Patience;

But how I wish that I'd had the insight

Which half a century brings, so every line

I've written since that day would burn as bright

As that first flame, so fragile, yet a sign

Of all that followed, till the fire's light

Embraces everything that's yours and mine.

Brian Hick February 2011

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