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Keepsake


2mac,

 

When you can no longer breathe,

When you have no one else to rely on,

When you lose sight of the surface,

Float.

 

When you struggle,

When you tremble,

When you cry,

Float.


Succumb?

Submit?

Surrender?

Drown.

 

Do not dare drown on me;

Float.

 
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