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I realise now there are things I'll never see,

Places I won't reach.  Even though

I don't feel death is imminent - and maybe

I'll live another forty years - I grow

Ever more aware that Time is short

And getting ever shorter by the day;

For though I still feel fit, enoy a walk,

Relentless Time chips and chips away

The confidence I had that I could do

Anything, and all I may achieve

Is limited to what this fragile frame

And even frailer mind is subject to,

Despite the coming end, I'll still believe

That Life is more than pessimism's pain.

Brian HIck April 2011

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