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it’s harder

it’s harder to be alive
than dead

but we forgive the dead
because they did their part
and lived in all of the ways
we do

and they live in ways
we do not

from middle year poems — Bill Eberle

December 2016     © 2016, Bill Eberle

Johanna’s Solstice