Jem

There Is A Moment In Middle Age When You Grow Bored

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There is a moment in middle age

when you grow bored, angered

by your middling mind,

afraid.

That day the sun

burns hot and bright,

making you more desolate.

It happens subtly, as when a pear

spoils from the inside out,

and you may not be aware

until things have gone too far.

— Jane Kenyon from poem The Pear

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