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I am strong today
I can look Life in the face
   when she asks
What do you want of me?
   and say
I don't exactly know;
I am searching, strong, and free!

Life leans back, she laughs;
Her green eyes glow
   and she says to me
The search is long 
   the strong grow weak;
The unloved and unloving are the free!
And the mother in my head says told you so!
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August 10, 2022 at 7:45 AM
Intriguing viewpointe, Elizabeth. I liked your poem, made me think. A poet friend in Texas, Bill
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