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

1 poem·Since March 2015
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Pride, it sticks.

March 5, 2015

It’s a list of things

That goes on forever,

But gets smaller as it goes,

That describes who I am.

Every part of the list,

Looks at itself as on a ladder,

And climbs the hill to be larger.

Of course I do what I can,

To manage my list,

Pushing down what I know is sin,

And pulling up the traits that are good.

It is, in the end, what makes us,

Our list, so good care I bid

To all who listen, to take care,

Of our list of things.

As time goes on, our list can change

And I want my list to look better.

While I can hide my list,

Lie about its contents,

That action itself only makes my list uglier.

But to show my list of things,

Regardless of what it bears,

To be proud of myself;

That’s one thing I can do,

To make my list,

Something I can be proud of.

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