Old

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Getting old, a curse, it seems,
The body weak, the mind a dream.

The days pass by, a blur of time,
The youth, a memory, left behind.

The body withers, the mind decays,
A shell of who we were, in our youth's heyday.

Getting old, a descent into darkness,
A fading away, of who we were, no harness.

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