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Not always
When you’re awake, dream!
Close your eyes to see the world!
So, calm without boys with guns,
So quiet without howls of hunger.
Look at all you have innate,
Food, shelter, and Love!
Hsenura Dream again, with eyes open,
hss ,Research Scholar Grateful to never wake up.
Not always, remember, If you ever feel proud,
Things might go our way… Look up at the deep dark sky.
Some days be flat and some spiked, Remember that you still are!
Some pitch black and some bright, Only a speck of dust,
Few are full of laughter, but a lot— Born out of imperfection.
Conforms to kill yourself. Rethink and realize sooner,
When those days knock on your door, Perfection, a full stop and
Gently welcome them alike. The other creates life.
Life is but a thunderstorm, Speak how you fought,
And you, the untested airplane… For the voiceless to learn
It will shake you, worse, but And the rebellion that arrives
Don’t you endanger what’s inside, Will bear you in their cry.
The immortal child that leads us, Not always, we fade away,
The mother who reminds peace, Unnoticed in silent graves
The father in your own shape So, in verse or prose, aloud,
And strive to save them all. Speak to change the world.
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