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One Job May Change My Life.

But I may Never know.

The man asks me " How will You pay?"

And I reply " I don't know".

I weep recalling all my hard-work, all of which will never be known.

But nevertheless I keep trying.

What do I continue trying for?

I try for the idea that my life will change.

The kind of change that only one job can do. 

The one job that can turn me from broken, to whole. 

This job is helping others, the others just like me.

The Broken.

The Lost.

And the Tired.

To change Their life, is to change Mine.

And I Will Change.

 

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