Ninety

Music: Fugue in F Minor.
By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques
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Ninety is a mixed but welcome blessing.
In simply being, knowing, loving, wanting --
Not without pain, not without thoughts of rest,
Each day an arduous, familiar test --
There is joy, a music sweet but haunting,
Yearning for the grace it is expressing.

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