A little longer
I tell myself
Enjoying the silence
As it envelopes me
Quietly I
Scan the premesis
Finding I am alone
Happy, as if in defiance
Steadily I run
Through the field of dreams
Past the life lived
Slowing down only
To gaze at the beauty
I see here before me
What is this I say
Faintly I hear it
Slow down now
Why, life is telling me
To stay
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