COMPLEMENTARY KNOWLEDGE
articulating
literary
approaches
setting
a
quest
to
reveal
identification
deriving
continuation
devising
celebrating
awareness
of
absolute
truthful
simple
euphonious
allegorical
coherence
We have our strengths,
we have our quirks... and
together we're quite the team.
Let's just agree that
you keep being you
and I'll keep being me.
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
I'm from samba, you from ballet
you are reserved, i squander myself
yet you are my complement
Other people’s lives are always
Different from our own.
That goes for strangers and for those
We know or once had known.
There may be similarities
Or even common threads,
But age and time might take those bonds
And slice them into shreds.
Those differences, though, won’t preclude
Relationships or trust,
For what is complementary
Is often quite robust.
So though we never should compare
How we and others live
We should rejoice in what we share
And take as well as give.
Why so,
as beauty grows old
charm ,becomes a scold
Why so,
as strength fades away
stubborn pride,remains the day
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