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On Children

Qamarah Green

Your children

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Are not your children

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They are the sons daughters

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Of lifes longing for itself

They come through you

But they are not from you

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Tho they are not with you

The belong not to you

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You can give can give them your love

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But not your thoughts

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They have their own thoughts

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You house their body

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But not their soul

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For there soul dwell in a place of tomorrow

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Where you can not visit

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Not even in your dream


You can strobe to be like them

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But you can not make them just be like you

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