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Wake up Get dressed In your Sunday best. Don’t forget the smile. It doesn’t matter if you’re bruised and broken. Doesn’t matter if your dreams are crushed. Doesn’t matter if you don’t have all the answers… Here, In this place, Under these lights, Your makeup must not run, Your tears must not break through, And you must never- NEVER- Take off the mask you have made. There’s uniformity behind he masks, But If you look Deep Into their eyes, Deep Into the windows of the soul, You may see That if we would all Take off the masks And show Our insecurities There is unity in that as well. As “brothers” and “sisters” We shouldn’t be afraid To uphold each other In the good The bad The neutral. But instead We’re busy “prettying” up our lives, Faking the stories, And acting optimistic and sure In a world of pessimism and uncertainty. Let’s make a resolution. Let’s try something new. Let’s share our weaknesses and let the rivers run from our eyes. Let’s share in death and loss as well as life and gain Let’s embrace the fact that we are human With emotions from all ranges. Let’s wake up Get dressed Forget about our Sunday best and only smile If and When It means something.
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Aug 31, 2012
Aug 31, 2012 at 9:19 PM UTC
New Sunday
Wake up Get dressed In your Sunday best. Don’t forget the smile. It doesn’t matter if you’re bruised and broken. Doesn’t matter if your dreams are crushed. Doesn’t matter if you don’t have all the answers… Here, In this place, Under these lights, Your makeup must not run, Your tears must not break through, And you must never- NEVER- Take off the mask you have made. There’s uniformity behind he masks, But If you look Deep Into their eyes, Deep Into the windows of the soul, You may see That if we would all Take off the masks And show Our insecurities There is unity in that as well. As “brothers” and “sisters” We shouldn’t be afraid To uphold each other In the good The bad The neutral. But instead We’re busy “prettying” up our lives, Faking the stories, And acting optimistic and sure In a world of pessimism and uncertainty. Let’s make a resolution. Let’s try something new. Let’s share our weaknesses and let the rivers run from our eyes. Let’s share in death and loss as well as life and gain Let’s embrace the fact that we are human With emotions from all ranges. Let’s wake up Get dressed Forget about our Sunday best and only smile If and When It means something.
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ashley-nichole
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Aug 31, 2012
Aug 31, 2012 at 9:19 PM UTC
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