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As We Grow...We Become... Carrying on through the everyday In Our thoughts and the words we say Conforming to the society's way An inertial pattern would stay As we grow and become more mature We should embrace our life with our failure Knowing this and not searching for reasons why Accepting our mistakes and admitting our lie Letting go of the past and forgiveness to seek Being forgiving doesn't mean you're weak Nor is it saying you're a doormat as choice For people to walk over you without a voice There shouldn't be a need to justify But to let go of animosity kept inside And in all, that was cast Shedding the weight, In all that we relate And not repeating the past We cannot change people, but we can certainly change inside If we can all learn to simply forgive and admit what we hide First to ourselves and then to every other There's no need to continue deceiving another To assume our blame To embrace our shame The lessons in life to becoming better It takes a bit of courage and will to endeavor And the result is in the respect You may not know or even expect But this is life, simply teaching us to grow As in failures, and in our strife All our achievements would certainly follow And yet... In our lives, and what we're born into Following the rules and pursuing we do But There are questions, questions of why Questioning everything even as we die What're our reasons for being? Within this reality, we're seeing Why are we born? and why do we die? And do we all truly, have a soul inside? Why do we feel emotions? And why is there pain? And what happens when we go, and what would remain? When did this all begin? And are we truly alive and living? What's the purpose of life each day? In my mind these questions display S F B contemplatively...
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