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Reverb10 -- December 14 -- Appreciate

Prompt: What's the one thing you have come to appreciate most in the past year?
How do you express gratitude for it?

i have passed minutes watching clocks

hearing each dull echoing tick

counting down the time

until i would be freed.

i had more money then

though never much.

i lost more sleep 

lived a lot of 

buts.

i
have
lost 
friends
and seen
many suffer
during this year.
i can no longer deny that
 our time is not guaranteed.
i am grateful for each breath
that enters my lungs. now days pass
and i'm too busy to mark them. i smile 
  lost in thoughts and wandering new roads.

Thanks to ToniVC for the beautiful picture. See more of this artist's amazing work here.