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Canvas
You chose your canvas
Now let me choose mine
Let me live through my own mistakes
Have my own goals
Stop telling me what I should be
Or what classes I should have taken
Because to be honest
You didn't make the best choices
Didn't have the best grades
or attitude either
And in some ways I guess I take after you
But, Dad you were not there for me enough
And missed opportunities is time lost
You can not make up for the things I missed
You can not forget that I'm older and I know
I know you past struggles
Because Dad, I'm happy where I am now
And you can't take that from me
Stop trying to have me do the things you missed
We are two alike but also so different
You chose your canvas
Now let me choose mine
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