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How startling is life, when we think of how...
It alters us, even now
I feel a change, somewhat strange,
Descend upon me like a settling cloud.

How Life flings us far away
From the very day
Of our birth...how it rents us apart
From our birth places...
Tears us away from those well-loved faces...

How it paints new chapters, with an invisible brush,
Sometimes ambling but forever in a rush...