There are no rehearsals

     In living,

My candle burns at both its end

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It will not last the night

    But all my foes

        and all my friends

it burns a lovely light…

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Procrastination

Is the pallbearer

of opportunity.

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Hold dearly to your dreams

for within their reality

lies mans greatest hope.

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Timid are those

who attempt only

that which they know

they can achieve.

 

 

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If I were to take the time

to explain

      the whys

           and wherefores

of my convictions and dreams,

defending the pattern of my life

       I would be left  

            with no time to live it.

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Desperation gives birth 

to ludicrous optimism.

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My friend in manila

assures me, that a moth

         is good luck

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i'm aware of rabbit's feet

         but a moth?

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I need luck badly

         and so I believe.

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if i were to add up

all the things throughout my life

that I do repeatedly

good, bad or indifferent...

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i would have to say that love

heads the list.

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i have loved deeply at times

         and have known pain

to an even greater depth.

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one day, i hope to know love

         to a greater degree than

                 any pain i have known.

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my goal in life

is to have my life touch other lives

 

to make an effect on someone

or something

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to prove to myself

that i did more than merely exist

 

to have had a purpose

 

to reach even one person to whom

it  will have mattered

that i even lived at all

 

if only

 

to have passed through

and touched their lives.

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   -  logan Clarke