Coming of age
Youth recedes with all its
Compelling purposes
What purpose now?
The future promises
No lightningrod meaning
No casual rewards
No escape from the human condition
My condition
No longer apart
Gathering my dreams, my friends
For the long exposed traverse
All risk but
Nothing abandoned to chance
In loving or being loved
From this day forward
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Copyright Deborah McGlauflin, January 1984. All rights reserved.
