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For my sister


Open your eyes look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living? -Bob Marley

She reflects and has no shame to let the world know as she cries to the open

worry about your-

self. I try to tell her, but she sits and covers her lonely eyes

 

look at the free birds, look at them. LOOK!

if they are taken care of, so are you. By a power beyond, one you feel within

remember? when you said “God I give you my life” in the altar? So why are..

 

you- so e m p t y? can’t you understand how desperate He yearns for you

for your soul, what will it take for you to be satisfied

 

i ask her. you need to be someone you’re content with

i remind her, be like the-

 

she cuts me off, ‘what is life?!’

 

it’s not about finding the meaning of life! you’re-

 

again. ‘i dont like the life im living...’

 

 

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&ldquo;</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Open your eyes look within. Are you satisfied with the life you&rsquo;re living? -Bob Marley</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She reflects and has no shame to let the world know as she cries to the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">open</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">worry about</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> your</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">self. I try to tell her, but she sits and covers her lonely </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">eyes</span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">look at the free birds, look at them. </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LOOK!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">if they are taken care of, so are you. By a power beyond, one you feel </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">within</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">remember? when you said &ldquo;God I give you my life&rdquo; in the altar? So why </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">are</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">..</span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you- so e m p t y? can&rsquo;t you understand how desperate He yearns for</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> you</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for your soul, what will it take for you to be </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">satisfied</span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i ask her. you need to be someone you&rsquo;re content </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i remind her, be like</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">she cuts me off, &lsquo;what is</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> life</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">?!&rsquo;</span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it&rsquo;s not about finding the meaning of life!</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> you&rsquo;re</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-</span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">again. &lsquo;i dont like the life im</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> living</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...&rsquo;</span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&ldquo;Fall down seven stand up eight&rdquo;</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eventually you will </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fall</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Life will come, and knock you </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">down</span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Its metamorphosis little one, you&rsquo;re only </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">seven</span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You must learn how to be bold and how to </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">stand</span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Slowly you will grow </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">up</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c511d82e-d953-eccb-cde9-68852c7fcc84"><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But for now, no worries, soon you will be </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">eight</span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><div>&nbsp;</div>

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