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'''Life’s Great Hunt'''<br>
''By Adagio D’Tranticus''<br>
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Life's a hunt, the minstrels say,<br>
A bout 'twixt predator and prey.<br>
From birth to death, we play this role<br>
And hunt with bodies, minds, and souls<br>
Our lives are spent in this pursuit<br>
And each man's hunt takes its own route<br>
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Within our first few hours here<br>
Our hunt’s first stage starts to appear.<br>
Learning becomes our goal in life.<br>
We hone our wits sharp like a knife<br>
With all our might, we seek to grow<br>
Till youth itself becomes our foe.	<br>		
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When youth is slain, adulthood dawns<br>
And even still, our hunt goes on.<br>
But now the goal we’re dreaming of<br>
Is how to track and capture love.<br>
For all the knowledge we now own<br>
Means nothing if we die alone.<br>
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Some will find the love they seek<br>
For others prospects are too bleak<br>
But either way, when old age dawns<br>
A brand new hunt in us is spawned<br>
As we look back and seek for proof<br>
Of something to restore our youth<br>
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How odd this is:  To end our pain<br>
We seek the self-same youth we’ve slain!<br>
What once was ours that we rejected<br>
Was that which we should have protected<br>
For as we hunt from womb to tomb<br>
We hurtle forwards towards our doom.<br>
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And at the end of days, we find<br>
The true hunt the gods had in mind<br>
The hunt that haunts our every breath<br>
Is that great hunt which ends in death.<br>
And when our lives Death comes to claim<br>
He is the Hunter, we’re the game.<br>
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And when at last we all are caught.<br>
A new life waits beyond all Thought.<br>
I’ll meet you there, beyond that wall<br>
When for me the Hunter calls<br>
For there we all can live as one<br>
And hunt all day ‘neath shining sun.<br>
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''From [[The Complete Works of Adagio D'Tranticus]], Vol. 2: Tales of Epic Proportions''

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