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Playful invitation to leisurely solve confetti challenge
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Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 1st place 2025
What you see is what you get.
When I look in the mirror I see I’ve got it.
Perhaps I’ve got a bit too much of it.
I walk past a store I can see in the window
as he walks along with me he’s got it bad
I am comforted to know I’m not the only one
I never said I was pretty.
I never said I was cool.
I never said I was perfect.
I never said I was anything but what I am.
I have no reason to lie.
I have nothing to hide.
What you see is what you get.
Take it or leave it.
At the start of a new day,
Do you remember the disappointments of the former day?
And forget the store house of the good tidings of today
Then your day is spent based on yesterday’s failure
And you live to regret the whole day.
What do you see in a day?
Do you see yesterday and its disappointments?
Or a hope of a better today?
Have you failed once and given up hope?
Or have you been afraid of trying?
Do you know life has better things in stock,
Much more than you have ever thought.
Just open your eyes wide
Look beyond the horizon
And you shall discover that
You can get that which you have seen.
kanu
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