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Zack Ripley Oct 2021
We don't need to save the world
We don't need to save each other
We need to save ourselves from ourselves
Zack Ripley Oct 2021
Things change every day
whether we like it or not.
That's why it's so important
to work with what we've got.
Because one day, they just might pave paradise to put up a parking lot
Zack Ripley Oct 2021
No one said life was easy
No one said we have enough time
And yet, we still work with what we've got.
Zack Ripley Oct 2021
I'll give it one more day. One more time.
One more step. One more try. One more smile. One more laugh. One more hug. One more kiss. One more shot at happiness.
Just in case the next one
is the one that matters
Zack Ripley Oct 2021
Nobody sees everything;
Some are blinded by the darkness
While others are blinded by the light.
Zack Ripley Oct 2021
How can I build you up?
How can I break you down?
How can I make you see
That you are safe and sound
With me
Zack Ripley Oct 2021
My 400th poem
Sleep

At this point in life, I don't really care
whether I'm wrong or right.
I'll be whoever, whatever I have to be.
As long as I can fall asleep at night.
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