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Riddle (a poem)

I woke up crying today.

Here one day,
Home the next,
In a moment
Lethargy becomes glory,
Pain becomes joy,
A heavy heart is unburdened,
A weary soul finds rest.

Sometimes it feels like 
Life 
Is just 
Death 
Prolonged over several decades,
A  
Lifetime 
Is merely a list
Of loved ones' deaths 
One has endured.

I've always had a feeling that I would die early.

31,
No parents or grandparents left, 
I guess that's what happens when you're the youngest of 7,  
I don't think they call you an orphan when you're 31, but it still feels that way.

He was a riddle that refused to be solved,
He was a book that couldn't be read, 
He went to his grave holding it all in,
The pain, 
The love, 
The words worth speaking,
If we don't understand him, 
How can we understand ourselves? 

The end of an era
Has descended,
Helplessly I watch
A new epoch arise,
But how difficult it is 
To bid farewell 
To the life 
You have always known.

And everybody asks you 
How are you doing?
Because they don't know
What else to say.

What else is there to say?

Somebody dies every day,
You never know when 
Today
Will be your day.

As your body is laid to rest,
I rest
Knowing that you loved me,
Even though you never 
Knew how to say it.

I learned the origin of the word Euchre,
But I was never able to tell you about it,
I think you would have found it interesting.

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