Turning the Pages

time has come
to follow the way
life threw me

to settle down 
in the aftermath 
of fifty years passing

many goals, dreams
unfulfilled by hardships
a lowly soul, beneath them all
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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July 26, 2012 at 10:13 PM
smiles dont work here, it must look like a frown when i smile :)smile:(
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July 26, 2012 at 1:42 PM
Smile :)....and the world will smile back to you :).....well written poem Barbara! - oxox love Anne-Lise
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