Footnotes

I quietly sit and read my life
for you see it is in my verse
reliving my loves and my wife
awaiting my day in the hearse

Not much left now but time
and probably not much of that
now I realize  my greatest crime
was pacing when I could have sat

So many days I  gave to fear
reserving so few for friends
always keeping my worries near
so I am alone as it all ends

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