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Leading to the dark certainty of death
the ever-present transience of time
fosters a growing awareness of age
as sunsets become daily reminders
of all that withers and dies around us.
In the days to come there’ll be other deaths
we’ll have to cope with and the grief they bring.
Besides we’ll need to plan our own exits
–whether with pomp and circumstance or none–
to assuage our qualms that soon we’ll be both
dead and forgotten.