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I Am Mine, I Am My Own

I have spent too much time
Searching out for your approval,
For your go ahead for me to do
Anything within this world
But now I say:
         I am mine, I am my own.
 
I will not strip down naked for you
Bear out the blessings of God to you
For you and your weak pleasures,
For this is mine and mine alone
For now I know:
         I am mine, I am my own.
 
I am no longer tangled
Within your chain of lies,
Your assumptions of who I am,
What I have to be
As now I know:
         I am mine, I am my own.

I am not afraid of you any more,
I no longer fear your shadow,
Though you come bearing guns,
I stand with the armor of spirit
Knowing very well that:
         I am mine, I am my own.

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