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Knock me over with this one!! The older I get, the more I know it. Elegant poem.
Thank you, Helen! How, how does time go by so quickly?
‘time is smoke in our eyes’ is an amazing metaphor.
Thank you, Mark.
As soon as you said that, I thought of an old verse from the book of Isaiah in the Bible: Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment… Trust me, I’m not a Bible savant–it was part of a song I used to sing, and lyrics seem to stay with us long after our brain misplaces other memories.