A letter to a younger me!

Remember where you came from,The trials and troubles.Take each of your days,Make it drip outevery secondLike golden nectar.Or make it a seed from whichYour world will grow. Remember when you laughedWith friends, at them, together.Take each memory,Make it shine and shimmerLike every star that shoneOn those cold nights, from whichYour imagination flew. Remember who you…

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The most valuable thing I own

I have a hundred books,Whose leaves, like confetti in the wind,Have kept me sane at timesIn a mad, mad world. I have pennies by the thousand,Whose tarnished copper, not goldHave bought me bread at timesIn an impoverished world. I have scores of clothes,Whose threadbare patterns, not silkHave kept me warm at timesIn the coldest night….

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