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The word this week is “just.”
Though born as righteous, morally upright,
A contrary course its life hath gone.
“Precisely,” “exactly,” new meanings that came,
Decayed with age; no longer were strong.
Unjust it was, this life of “just,”
To “almost exactly,” diminished and sad.
“With tiny-bit difference, enough yet to note,”
And now on to “barely” and “merely,” a fad.
Examples here: “She's just turned twelve,”
And “Give me just a little bit more.”
“I'm just a regular Joe, you know.”
“She wants him just as friend, no more.”
So adjective, adverb, whatever the role,
As frequent pal this “just” will serve.
No goal ahead to wed or to bed,
Instead a glory remembered, preferred.
Perhaps, one day “just so” and “fair”
Will make a resurgence, such usage now rare;
If only reminding of change not to care
Or granting the wish that true “justice” may bear.