Time Speeds Up as One Grows Older

Music: Fugue in F# Major.
By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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Time speeds up as one grows older.
Half one's life is one to two.
In a year, a year's a third.
Realize, though it seems absurd,
Time's proportional to you.
Years for dogs and cats run slower.
Free of time, beyond the knower,
One with all, eternal, true,
Unreachable by will or word,
Resides what will one's life renew.