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Inevitability

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Inevitability 
David J Walker

This is how I turned 20 
With plenty of time left to 
Opine its wastings awaiting 
The sun to set
	The weekend to come 
Christmas 
	Birthdays 
		Summer vacations that
Race past the calendars edge 

This is how I turned 30
Looking over a shoulder
	To see who is catching up
Who is making up 
	For past mistakes and 
Begging for retakes for the many 
	Wasted opportunities 

This is how I turned 40 
Feeling the changes 
	To my body and
The beliefs scattered over 
The spectrum of 
	What is or
Is not to come

This is how I turned 50
Bracing for mortalities 
	Callings 
Hoping that believing
May facilitate the stalling 
	Of recompense 
On the final tabulation 
To come  and,  oh 
	Tipping is encouraged

This is how I turned 60
In quiet contemplations
	reflections
Concerning the reality of or 
The days  of coruscate refraction
that belong only to me 

Is this how I will turn 70
in the insouciance
	of what will be 
is the outcome inevitably 
predictable

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