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Life is Short

November 6, 2012
By jewelrygirl9 BRONZE, Durham, North Carolina
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jewelrygirl9 BRONZE, Durham, North Carolina
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"Do not expect of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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Life, it's so fleeting-
Yet here we stand and waste it,
Like it is endless.

© Matt F., Pierz, MN

The author's comments:
It just sort of came to me. I do a lot of haikus, especially about nature and life.
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