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That's a (W)rap [1]

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Date: 2024-07-26  

I just hit 64, I already feel old.

Years left to live but my story's been told.

The world heats up but I'm left feeling cold.

Wasted so many years waiting for a gold pot,

I'm not like Hamilton, I missed my shot.

Like Marshall said, opportunity knocked,

But I was afraid and kept my door locked.

Fear of the future was all that I felt,

I should have stood tall but instead I knelt,

Regret for fifty years is the hand I dealt myself.

Fear of rejection killed loves that might have been.

Never danced, went to parties or had many friends.

Never said what I felt, I kept it all in.

What I know now I didn't understand back then.

As a boy I wanted to be like Cousteau

To understand life in the world down below.

That dream died with others - it's all down to me,

Didn't work hard for what I wanted to be.

Not saying Goodbye, the world wasn't cruel.

It's me that's always been the fool.

No way to go back, do it over again,

But fifty years taught me I can live with pain.

So what's twenty more, or thirty or ten?

No way to know how much time I'll put in.

But this late I can't revolutionize --

or maybe I've just become institutionalized.

Don't get me wrong, some things are good,

But down and depressed is my most common mood.

FOMO is bad, but *knowing* you did...

...for decades I didn't even know my own kid.

Stress on all sides: GOP, health, job, money.

Any wonder my forecast is cloudy, not sunny?

I guess that's all I came to say.

Apologies to the doctors, both Seuss and Dre.



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