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It Takes Strength to Survive but it Takes Courage to Live

We all have faces that we hide away

forever and we take them out and

show ourselves when everyone is

gone and we look at what the years

have done and realize that everything

on the outside changes but what

really matters is on the inside and that

mostly remains the same.

 

We tell ourselves stories in order to

live and we cure physical diseases with

medicine but find out that the only cure

for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness

is love, so don't hope but decide and

have some fun on that final ride as

you approach the end.

 

Wash what is ***** water what is dry,

heal what is hurt, dry tears that are shed,

warm what is cold and guide what goes

off the road so you can lighten your

load and don't be afraid to try again

as everyone goes south every now and

then as we all fall in love though we

disregard the danger but learn that it

takes strength to love again but it

takes courage to be loved.

 

It takes strength to survive but it takes

courage to live just as it takes strength

to feel a friends pain and courage to

feel your own pain, so change the

changeable, accept the unchangeable

and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

                                                                             Jon York    2015

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