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Days spent filling your head

From your first word to your last

Decades of effort gone to waste

Could have lived a life

Content with your birthright

Without a futile dream to chase

A new word to explore

A novel idiom to find

A fruitless war against

The dulling of your mind

Another preterite learnt

A chance to make a memory gone

Internationalist role-play

Like the first year of life

Babbling incoherently

Once there, and back one day

A new word to explore

A novel idiom to find

A fruitless war against

The dulling of your mind

At the end of it all

Sitting defeated

Lobes depleted

Spit more than speech

Back to A0

Decrepitude calls

To monosyllabic

Barely grammatic

Shells of ourselves

Back to A0

A new word to explore

A novel idiom to find

A fruitless war against

The dulling of your mind

At the end of it all

Sitting defeated

Lobes depleted

Spit more than speech

Back to A0

Decrepitude calls

To monosyllabic

Barely grammatic

Shells of ourselves

Back to A0