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Beaten But Still I Rise

Let the phase pass
That  Mom's a jackass

What is my youth?
Did I live the truth?

The voices are mean
Yet Mom seems the queen!

Somehow she does love
Through it I rise above!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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