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A Morning After Forty

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Glowingly


New year
it is

December 31,
just a single day stacked up
and changed the unit we call a year

Though my time
nothing can be done about,

may my morning
not be a time that has grown old

May it be one that can greet a morning
that somehow hints that something good might happen, 
like a grown-up

A new year,
and so I contain
the morning of forty

 

This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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