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Dylan

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

1 poem·Since September 2013
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Headstrong

September 27, 2013

Time on a stopwatch

That is how they measure you

Bigger, faster, stronger

Toe to toe

Pound for pound

It's just me against you

It's time to step up

The stage is set to throw down

Barbells, sandbags, prowlers, ropes

All lined up, the athletes stand

Everything goes calm

And then...

3...2...1...go.

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