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Number three runner rounded the final turn - heart pounding in sync with his pain-racked legs. Reaching his mark, he surrendered the baton to his waiting team-mate's grasp then collapsed full-spent to his knees. Still panting, he toweled his face - glancing up to watch his friend sweep first past the finish line. Gathered for a hasty camera snap, the team locked arms in a victory clasp that only a bonded quartet could share.
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4d ago
May 30, 2026 at 5:47 PM UTC
FOUR BY FOUR HUNDRED
Life is not a Relay Race, There is No passing of batons, No running fast towards the finish line, To see which team has won, No stadium filled coliseums, or sceams and yells from the crowds, No bending down to get on your mark, As the starter pistol shoots out loud, Life is not a Relay Race, Just take your precious time, No racing against a stopwatch, Your Life is laid out fine, Your Life will flow naturally, It will run it's Natural Course, Keep living your life day by day, don't rush, push or force, Life is not a Relay Race, No Racing against the grain, Just Live your Life carefree, and Your Happiness you will contain!! Life is not a Relay Race, You don't have to be in a hurry, What's for you will come to light, So, there is No need to worry!!! B.R. Date: 5/25/2026
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May 25
May 25, 2026 at 11:04 PM UTC
Life is not a Relay Race
for badwords how did you enter my inner streaming? merely, me, in a momentary, I wrote of mixed emotes when  lying prone next to a beloved, but my inner working you invade, comprehending my thoughts while processing, in ways I instant recognition their total accuracy, yet, how could this be, analysis, so close, *********** and yet methodically betraying the processes that lived live in on,y my inners, where though shared, one thought, believed, my disguise would go unpenetrated, and fear to inquire, how your insights can penetrate my insides, the very tension that drive me to compose, the very anxiety that must be creatively disposed, a poem is my explication, a shedding of sensations,, and in a calculus of portrayal, you relay me to the outsiders, in ways that leave me, naked, stumbling, wondering have I gone too far, or not nearly far enough, how much should I relay, is there a boundary, wondering through which aperture, which end, of the telescope, I should conduct, utilize for my self-examination
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Oct 24, 2025
Oct 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM UTC
portray, betray, yet relay
1 Kings 15:24-  "Then Asa rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the city of his father David. And Jehoshaphat his son succeeded him as king." Hand passes baton Race not about runners An objective not at odds   To something further than singular It is about the passing Dedicated motion Maintaining of Exchange at maximum speed Invigorating something else Notion of familial   Virtues vested In a completement Of the passing on And a carrying of values So well learned   From another before And His trust given Rewards of a relay Are plural With an instinctual handing off Of Faith In a mentor before
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Mar 13, 2017
Mar 13, 2017 at 5:15 PM UTC
Baton
The relay we tend to play, a selfish race of people who passes the baton but never get it handed back to us.
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Jan 23, 2015
Jan 23, 2015 at 3:00 PM UTC
The Relay