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Aug 2017
Welcome to today,
get ready to pay,
with guaranteed pain,
and tears falling like rain.

Life is a struggle,
get ready to juggle,
people, bills, and rules to obey,
you can try but does no good to pray.

The lessons are hard and often,
no matter what they end in a coffin,
it's really just a question of time,
do you try to stay right, or just turn to crime?

These are the questions you face,
if you answer wrong, have a face full of mace,
or your hands raised up high in the air,
when the bullet is fired, ends in despair.

But the situations are yours to make,
they can be pleasant or coiled like a snake,
ready to strike out and bite,
venom sinks in if you fight.

Rotting a hole
into your soul,
that rarely can be fixed,
super glue and blood, just don't mix.

So count the days you are given,
all you can do is just keep livin'
doing the best that you can,
in the end, all you are is human.
The Fire Burns
Written by
The Fire Burns  M/Artesia, NM
(M/Artesia, NM)   
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