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A Lesson In Hope: a poem

March 13, 2016
A Lesson In Hope: a poem

(MCT 2007)

You reach
You soar
Your heart at your fingertips
You
       Touch
You
        Brush
At what should be
But, my child,
Smoke and mirrors
Is what it oft turns out to be

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    Anon, Like the Author of this Poem • Mar 15, 2016 at 7:43 pm

    Nice poem – who wrote this?

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