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Coming home from the office
so many thoughts
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raced through my head.
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How a person can dream
his life away,
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while others busily rush around .
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Slowly and helplessly,
life slips through our hands,
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whatever we do.
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l thought how the dearest and
sweetest in my own life
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was now slipping
through my hands
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without my being able
to understand why
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or explain how it had happened.
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l was reminded of an old verse.
lt went:
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''Pay attention to the treasure
God has sent you,
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don't let it slip through
your hands.''
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We're never attentive enough
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to what we possess
and loathe to lose .
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l longed for my wife,
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longed to walk again side-by-side
through the streets
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with her arms in mine,
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as so many times before
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when we were happy.
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Then l thought l'd go meet her
at the opera.