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Watch the World Change

March 7, 2014
By ZoeBro17 PLATINUM, Carlsbad, California
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Make the most of yourself, for thats all their is of you.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I watch and wonder
as the world changes-
spreading every
which way.
I sit observing
as it shifts and reaches,
slowly fading to gray.
The once vibrant colors,
moving in stranger directions
than I can follow.
I'm stuck,
glued,
Trapped-
by the entombing blandness
of a dead world.

© Ed J., Marblehead, MA

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