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      <title>A Call With God</title>
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         Intro
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         Have you ever had a moment in your life
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          when your heart was filled with love and light?
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          With every step, you breathed inside,
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          with each breath — a prayer, far and near.
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          But underneath, you held a fear.
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          You tried so hard to be in charge,
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          lived through every shifting sight,
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          grasping tight to stake your claim,
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          but found, in truth, there was no fame.
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          You started to wonder — is this all?
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          Just dust destined to forget the call?
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          We age, we drift, we question how
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          it came to this, somehow.
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          You analyzed your mind
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          and invited it to be your crown,
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          so proud of what you figured out.
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          You used your logic as a way
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          to catch, to climb, to clear the way.
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          To reach the gate, to get ahead.
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          You called it fate, but truth instead,
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          it was control, clocked like a roll,
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          ego speaking clear and bold.
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          It got you far, but deep inside,
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          you were still lost,
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          trying to hold on to what you’d known,
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          what you had done, and what had hurt.
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          Until one day, you heard a sound,
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          a silence, yet so clear, untouched.
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          And you knew:
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          this is not the God of me.
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          The God of me has no demand,
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          no blame, no anger, hate, or shame.
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          The God of me does not define me
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          by what I think, or what they’ve done.
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          That day, you cried,
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          tears did not release despair, no.
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          They rolled down your cheeks with joy,
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          with music in the air.
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          And you wondered,
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          is this how we’re meant to feel?
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          Not by self-abuse or fleeing gold,
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          not by timelines pecked in stone.
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          Is this the way we were destined
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          to become a whole?
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          This life — it’s granted.
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          It’s a gift, an honor simply
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          to be here, to see the sky,
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          to touch the tree.
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          And when you doubt or wonder why,
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          I ask of you — now close your eyes.
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          Embrace the softness flowing through,
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          let every breath come back to you.
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          Let love become your sacred rhyme.
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          Your presence — it is divine.
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          Not in your work, your task, or time.
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          The play you thought was yours
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          was never yours alone.
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          You wrote the script, played every role,
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          believed the stories told.
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          Yet in the depths of you,
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          it’s always been true:
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          this life is grand,
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          this life is yours.
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          Connect to the earth,
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          to grass beneath your feet,
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          to trees that whisper angel songs,
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          to birds in mist.
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          So now,
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          as you allow yourself to be,
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          unfold, dissolve, return to free,
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          let silence hum beneath your skin,
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          let truth begin from deep within.
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          Let go of roles, release the chase.
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          There’s nothing more you need to face.
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          No fight to win, no race to run.
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          Just breathe and feel,
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          you just become.
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          Not lost, not broken, not undone,
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          but found, restored,
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          and whole as one.
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      <title>The Soul</title>
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         Close your eyes.
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          Take a slow, deep breath in
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          And gently let it go.
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          Feel your body soften and let the weight of the day melt away.
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          With each breath, return home to the quiet within you that always knows.
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          There is a place inside you where time does not rush,
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          Where the soul remembers why it came here.
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          In this space there is nothing to fix, nothing to prove — only truth,
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          Pure, alive, breathing through your heart.
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          As you listen, let each word wash over you like a light.
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          Let it remind you of what you already are:
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          Love, freedom, and divine remembrance.
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          And now take one more breath,
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          And as you exhale, allow your soul to remember.
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         Inhale, breathe in — let life appear,
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          A sacred gift that draws you near.
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          This breath is holy, not for play,
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          Divinity guides each fleeting day.
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          Pause, and feel the ground below,
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          The roots that steady, the calm they show.
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          Relax your shoulders, soften hands,
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          The body listens, it understands.
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          Recall the paths that you have known,
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          The tears, the trials, how you’ve grown.
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          The nights you questioned, asking why,
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          Each moment lives, not cast aside.
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          They told you, “Be perfect, don’t fall astray,
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          Work without pause, push night into day.
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          Follow the rules, obey, conform,
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          Be strong, keep going through every storm.”
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          But what if wholeness lives inside,
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          A blend of truth you need not hide?
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          Of peace and chaos, doubt and might,
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          Of shadow’s veil and soul’s pure light.
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          Breathe in the sun, let golden rays flow,
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          Exhale the weight, release, let go.
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          Tears like rivers cleanse the pain,
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          Each drop a blessing, not in vain.
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          What if emotions locked away,
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          Returned to guide you here today?
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          Your pain transformed, your doubt the key,
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          Your wounds now speak your truth within.
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          Even through nights of fear and fight,
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          Your soul held close to God’s own light.
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          It whispered softly, “You are free,
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          You are divine — remember Me.”
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          Now stand in power, arms open wide,
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          The ocean of peace runs deep inside.
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          No voice, no book defines your care,
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          Your soul has led you everywhere.
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          Affirm with breath, repeat, believe:
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          “I am whole. I am light. I am free.
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          I trust the wisdom of my soul.
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          I do remember — I am whole.”
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          The noise dissolves, the world grows still,
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          You rest aligned with God’s pure will.
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          Your soul, your light, your truth breaks free,
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          Whispers within: I am. I am me.
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           Intro
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            How often do you forget today
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           waiting for tomorrow to give you
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           what your heart was ready to receive now.
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            How often do you silence what matters most
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           the voice that longs to speak,
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           the touch that asks to be felt,
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           the breath that wants to remind you… you are alive.
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           You think peace will come when the world settles,
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           but peace only meets you when you do.
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           You wait for the perfect moment,
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           yet life keeps unfolding
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           in the one you’re already in.
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           There is no “someday.”
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            There is only now
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           this sacred, fleeting, trembling moment
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           that will never come again.
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           So pause.
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           Let your shoulders drop.
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           Feel the air move through you.
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           Remember the faces that shaped you,
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           the love that still lingers in your chest,
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           the light that found you
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           when you weren’t looking.
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           This isn’t just a poem.
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           It’s a remembering.
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            A whisper from your soul asking
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           How often have you truly lived?
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           How often have you loved without fear?
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           How often have you honored the beauty
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            of this very moment
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           the only one you’ll ever really have?
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           Poem
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           I feel awakened, now and then,
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           By fleeting thoughts, by where and when.
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           Not from the pain, but from the grace
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           Of moments time cannot replace.
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           I wonder why we chase, delay,
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           The simple truths along our way.
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           I ask my soul, I ask the sky
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           Why do we live and not ask why?
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           To those we’ve loved, to those we’ve lost,
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           We hold their light, no matter cost.
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           I look around and softly sigh,
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           Where did the years so quickly fly?
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           When did I start to build and plan
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           To raise a child, to hold a hand?
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           To write my name on legal forms,
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           And trade in play for daily norms?
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           Why did I spend such time on doubt,
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           When joy was always reaching out?
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           What did I need the world to see
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           To prove a truth that lived in me?
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           Where did I long to dance and roam,
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           To sit by sea, to call it home?
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           To taste the wind, to chase the stars,
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           To walk with wonder near and far?
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           How did I gift my sacred hours
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           To voices stealing all my powers?
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           And yet, there came a few so rare,
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           Who cracked me open with their care.
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           They shifted all I thought I knew,
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           They dared me to be still, be true.
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           And in their eyes, I saw a flame
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           A call to rise, not play the game.
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           I used to run from depth and grace,
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           To keep up with the frantic pace.
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           But slowly, I began to hear
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           A softer song, more true, more clear.
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           And you, dear friend, how oft do you
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           Void the mirror, dodge the view?
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           How often do you chase the fame,
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           To fill the space where stillness came?
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           How often do we miss the chance
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           To send a note, to share a glance?
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           To say I’m here, I miss you still,
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           You shaped my soul, you bent my will.
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           How often do we thank the ones
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           Who stood beside us, stayed through storms?
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           Who held a space, who lit the way
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           When we forgot both night and day?
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           I stood inside a room of light,
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           Where grief was soft and hearts were tight.
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           And yet, the sun still kissed our skin
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           A quiet warmth that spoke within.
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           The angels circled, calm and bright,
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           And wrapped the room in gentle light.
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           No words were needed - just the grace
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           Of love that time cannot erase.
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           Why do we wait until the end
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           To reach back out, to call a friend?
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           To say you mattered, you were love,
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           You still shine down from stars above.
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           Put down your phone. Step into now.
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           You’re here to live, to breathe, to bow
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           To feel the earth beneath your feet,
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           To taste the air, to make life sweet.
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      &lt;br/&gt;&#xD;
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           Go hug a tree, go hear the stream,
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           Go dare to live your deepest dream.
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           Sing, dance, create - don’t wait, don’t hide
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           Let love and truth walk by your side.
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    &lt;/span&gt;&#xD;
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           And don’t forget the ones who gave
          &#xD;
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           Their hearts to help you find your way.
          &#xD;
    &lt;/span&gt;&#xD;
  &lt;/p&gt;&#xD;
  &lt;p&gt;&#xD;
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           Say it now - don’t miss your part:
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    &lt;/span&gt;&#xD;
  &lt;/p&gt;&#xD;
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           You’ve shaped my life. You hold my heart.
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