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Economy

I do mind it but it is getting easier to be in economy when my mind tells me I deserve first class. The careful management of available resources has somewhat dimmed but with manageable. My life is a season or a sunny day compared to the Earth and as each cell betrays ,gravity beckons. I see friends and family and they are departing. And their song goes with them but I listen still. Listening in the night and crickets salute my aloneness. I see my father, hospital gown as his companion, I hand his waiting mouth a lollipop and a smile. Mommy snores and speaks her own language and I listen anyway. Kissing her face I know I’ll see her and she mumbles and eyes alert looking at something. Brushing her straggling hair I see the youth and a drink of water goes far for her parched lips. All is quiet as I wake and the Fourth Watch. God is here and has to tell me importance. I must move constant of the plan. Alert and at the ready for the fugitives of the Watch. I was salvaged from the heap so I must keep a look for those. Willed for the weak and alone I must carry across the line to redemption. Never weary and never falling along the way. Together we will.

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Date: 3/29/2024 5:51:00 PM
Awesome write many blessings to you.
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Date: 10/29/2023 10:33:00 AM
The process of aging happens fast as we age. We see family and friends passing away and care for our aging realizing that we are already there. Well said in this poem. love phyl
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