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Carson McGill

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

1 poem·Since September 2018
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A Paradoxical Relationship

September 27, 2018

Everyday my eyes burst open.

Everyday I become someone new.

The person I was yesterday when my eyes closed is now gone, 

and he teaches me how to change.

I was not perfect yesterday, 

nor am I today.

However, I tach myself to be better than I was, 

to be the person I wished to be yesterday.

Everyday is a new chance.

Everyday I am someone greater.

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