A deceased person,
or a historical figure,
when being mentioned,or a historical figure,
is usually followed by
a pair of brackets indicating
his years of birth and death
with a hyphen in between.
A person alive
has only his birth yearfollowed by a hyphen
with an open end.
The short line seems
waiting for the missing number
to be filled in.
Once you were born,
you were givena number, a hyphen
with its quiet longing
for a conclusion,
sometimes with patience
sometimes without.
2015/5/23
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