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What now? The years lie open and the days

That have been filled with work and purpose wait

As I stare blankly at this empty page.

What now?

Can I find a way to live which might abate

The stress which comes with leisure and the rage

Rising from fruitless empty hours, which Fate -

Oblivious to my longing to engage -

Has forced on me, as if she would berate

My impudence for living to this age?

What now?

Brian Hick December 2011

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