When I was a kid

If a girl wanted to …

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Romance …

I sometimes recall those moments

Took courage rather than a quick,

If ever I believed in your beauty

I needed to show up on your door …

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Today …

Tell me if it is difficult to know,

To recognize a person is real

By a snapchat that disappears

With the reality of a possibility …

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Yesterday …

I could sit in bed and delight

Knowing the smile you left me

As we stepped away at school

How lovely you might be in your…

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Privacy …

A world that in my imagination

Remained sacred containing

Only the beauty and elegance

My fantasy might create …

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World …

Every device in our hands

At our fingertips gives us time

To connect across the universe

And yet our human condition …

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Imagine …

“You may say I’m a dreamer

But I’m not the only one

I hope someday you’ll join us

And the world will be as one…”      -Lennon

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Passion …

Years ago my sister taught me

This word is bigger than it sounds

We have an opportunity to live

We have a responsibility to give …

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Music …

It drives our lovely soul and body

I move as my words hit the paper

I feel with a delicious responsive

Desire to be real, and live life free …

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We continue to recreate the wheel, we will

In our vanity, our fears, our … planetary ills