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Riahnna?


Riahnna.

A word

Only a unique few

Seem to know.

They use it

Often.

Others,

The Common Crowd,

Wonder

"What is

This so

Very Important

Word?"

The Crowd,

All the same,

Look into

The Book of Unknowns,

The Book of Knowledge,

The Book of Uniques.

They search,

And search,

Through the whirlwind

Of Unique Words,

And finally

They find it.

Riahnna.

"Here,"

They say,

"We have found it."

"We will now

Understand."

They read,

They read,

Again,

And again,

They do not

Understand.

For Riahnna

Is a

Unique Word,

A Special Word.

Hard to 

Understand

For the Common.

It is the 

Sadness

That is never

Let go.

Held in.

Using Happiness

As a show.

It is laughter,

Genuine.

The lack

Of Care,

Of need,

To Fit In.

To compare

To Others.

It is Imagination,

Never lost.

Always playing,

Whirling,

Creating,

Inside heads

Of Uniques.

It is Maturity,

But not

Superiority.

Great Empathy,

Stubbornness,

Compassion,

Hard Working.

It is

Free Emotions.

And in between

The

Fear,

Sadness,

Jealousy,

Anger,

Longing,

Are threads

Of Joy.

Holding them

Together,

Stable.

Riahnna

Is the

Belief

That Laughter

Is the

Best Medicine.

Sadness,

Anger,

Jealousy

Holds

The Common

Back.

Humor

Keeps

The Unique

Going.

All of this

Is defined,

Explained,

Felt.

A story,

A moral.

Told

In only

Eight Great,

Memorable,

Confusing,

Simple,

Unique

Words.

Smile,

And the World

Will smile

With You.

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