.
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where once wooded, now populated, concrete
where crickets chirped, now a street
where dreams dying, goals unreached, a new reality
where coming face to face with one's own mortality
where material achievement, awards on the wall
of no real value, please take them all
where wanted to change the world but the drive is gone
where a torch still burning, can one pass it on
where stars in the sky whose light will not diminish
where journey toward dreams that one'll never finish
where a peace in memories, pain doesn't last
where the future intimidates but not the past
where different roads but the same destination
where reaching back in sheer frustration
and fearing places where one don't know what one'll find
where thinking back to all we left behind
where another passing, quiet tears
a time of reckoning, a few more beers
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......... a new reality .........