This is it: a midlife manifesto

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Love/hate relationship with my adult self,

nostalgic for a time when answers seemed

just around the next corner,

out of reach only temporarily

to my growing self.


I will never be bigger or stronger than this

the time has come to take my courage

in both my hands

or relinquish dreams.


How long will there be others?

I am less brave now striding

into futures unknowable.

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