Complex the ingredients
Formative Years initiate
Academia minds elevate
Work conduct organizes
Family begets maturity
Society bids conformity
Experience adds acumen
Adversity urges caution
Input attunes emotions
Longevity wisdom earns
Our character developes
In time - aligns, readjusts
All of us subject to change
for better or for worse for
we are no longer the same
as we once were.

Herbert Holzbauer
© December 2004

Midi: "Momentary 4"
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Graphic: "Character"
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