Although "we're born to die"*
   we want to live
and yet sometimes I think -
   why didn't I 
die
  when I was 15!

I didn't know back then,
 knew nothing 'bout my fate
and all of them -
  my kith and kin...

It might have been 
   much better, 
I tend to think.

  So I just carried on...
How?
  I don't know.
Just on and on...



August 1, 2023


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*Quote from "Romeo and Juliet"

Act III, scene III

CAPULET

Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly.
And so did I. Well, we were born to die.