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Old 08-19-2014, 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by elbear View Post
We are dying all the time, each moment, every night. We die to what we leave behind. Finally we die as the body gives out for one reason or another. We also live on in many ways.

I wrote this a long time ago:



Each and every moment, I die
In the twinkling of an eye
Then awakening, here and now
Never knowing, never questioning how
Eternity lives in me
Nice poem. Cells in our body are constantly dying and being born. New cells replace old cells. Every so many years we are not the same person.

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