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Shoes

Peace is acceptance and understanding of ones place in the world Which is why it's so rare We can't see to the end of our own noses So how can we think we can care? Hope is a broken promise that naïveté allows to breathe How can we hope when it's just hard to believe? When you can't see the bottom What could you plan to retrieve? Trust is the brother of honesty but no one treats them as such They invite Trust to tell secrets but shun his brother instead So Trust listens to the rumors But the brother won't bother as the bitterness spreads. If peace, hope, and trust lose their way in our lives Can we ever believe that we would recognize Those who need help or those to be encouraged Those needing a word or to be showed how to endure it See life without these is less of a life that we live But it's a life that we survive with more take than of give. Remember the problems you face and know that others do to When you keep that in mind we walk a mile in their shoes.
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May 22, 2015
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