This was written by my father ❤️

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Once upon a time, in a land far away,
Lived a young maiden, innocent and gay.
With each passing day, her heart did beat,
In rhythm with time’s ever-moving fleet.

In her heart, a tale of ticking time,
A love so pure, a love so sublime.
Her lover, a sailor with eyes so blue,
Sailing the seas, seeking treasures anew.

With every wave that crashed on the shore,
Her heart did yearn for him even more.
Tick-tock, tick-tock, went the old clock’s chime,
Counting the seconds, marking each rhyme.

Days turned to weeks and the weeks to years,
The...