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It is time to tidy up your life!

Into your body has leaked this message.

No conscious actions, no broodings

Have brought the thought upon you.

It is time to take into account

What has gone and what has replaced it.

Living your life according to no plan

The decisions were numerous and yet

The ways to go were always one.

You stand between trees this evening;

The cigarette in your cupped hand

Glows like a flower.

The drizzle falling seems

To wash away all ambition.

There are scattered through your life

Too many dreams to entirely gather.

Through the soaked leaves, the soaked grass,

The earth-scents and distant noises

This one thought is re-occurring: