For context, I've started doing cut out poetry where I cut out specific words and glue them to a pretty background to make an overall statement. It's a fairly new hobby, but this is my favorite one transcribed.

struggling for balance, juggling time

One day you look out the window and the leaves have already fallen

and Our children are almost grown - our parents gone

It happened so fast

a life that's as complicated as everyone else's.

Each day, we must learn how to love, between morning's quick coffee

and evening's slow return.

A stranger will shave your private areas and anoint you with antiseptic and

a kind lady will begin telling you about anesthesia

This is a necessary thing.

Really, the beginning, lies in cynicism and when

my grandfather's mantle clock has stopped at 9:20,

we haven't had time to get it repaired.

life becomes almost impossible and

you curl up under a blanket and you despise your life

A lifetime or chances all wasted, pissed away.

Nobody can change this or make this better

love is lost, hope is gone, nothing left to do but to pour a glass of gin

I am not a killer. I am actually extremely nice. you say

Tell me, would you do it over?

How often in the past week did anyone offer you something from the heart?

I'm lending courage to strangers

Making a mess of my life

I'm a kid on a small allowance

I can lie in that bed for a week,

get sicker and sicker - waiting to hear one show

Of sincerity, but people are conditioned for the passive life in which

People do not speak from the heart and mean what they say,

So,

If you're looking for plain passionate speech,

You won't find it

here.

It's sad to say - the futures cheap

The brass pendulum is still and

We are just killing time.

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