In time we learn that the world is a cold place;
friends go off to fight wars,
relatives die from disease or drugs
and you don’t reach your goals.

Dobyns sees this
and he lives with it just like everyone else.
One can choose to make their time with people great
and know that someday it will end,
or one can recluse and feel the pain of loneliness instead of loss.

It’s a hard choice but it’s one we all make.