YOUNG MAN

He always knew he�d die young.

�By thirty, I�ll be gone,� he told those near and dear,

�You better love me while I�m still around�

and he did his best to do the same.

Nobody believed him

and, when at fourteen,

he became depressed,

they thought it was teen-age angst

not a mid-life crisis.

But he knew his days were short.

He had premonitions

he saw signs

and they all said STOP.

He knew his days would be swift

so he should use them to the fullest.

There is a lesson to learn here

an important way to be

that we can see

from how this youth used his precious days.

He lived to be a hundred and eighty seven

by the way

but that�s probably another tale to tell.

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