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What will be is

The best way to be  

Is unchained from the TV.  

Trust me,  

There’s nothing gained from watching warring nations  

Trade patience for desperation,  

Turning lives into numbers through hollow salvation.  

 

The ones who remain,  

Fragments of God’s creation,  

Won’t find leaders in the ashes of a police station.  

Am I making statements? Move over.  

There are no l...

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Best foot forward

An Experience we all go through, 

 

Sometimes forgetting,

 

The dangers were exposed to,

 

Like desperately waiting for someone to phone you,

 

Just another shoe, removed to put upon another's foot, 

 

Didn't look before leaping now that can put pay to your evening, leaving many road workers realing. 

 

À jump to which we tried to raise awareness to walk on a le...

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