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Void

Give me your castoffs Your difference Your worth Your not good enough And I, I will give you ...violence Give me your second best Your leftovers Your care LESS life Your excess movement And I, I will give you ...offense Give me your undesirable Your debt Your litnay of scores Your I ain't takin' it no more And I, I will give you ...intent Give me your hopes, dreams Your what it all could mean Your pie in the sky Your best definition of why And I, I will give you ...delusion VOID of freakin', stinkin' TRUTH Written by Trudy Schrader on 10-12-2023

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Date: 10/12/2023 12:42:00 PM
On our human scale the truth really does stink Trudy, only because it doesn’t come with reasonable explanations, perhaps if we understood the cosmic scale of truth, the big picture might be more palatable, gotta love your final line, cheers David
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Trudy Schrader
Date: 10/12/2023 3:03:00 PM
And too often, TRUTH is delivered by some well meaning person, out of season; thereby causing a skip, if you will, in the growth process.

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