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To Touch The Sky
Sometimes I think I could touch the sky
If I just jumped high enough
tried hard enough
Or wished loud enough
So I jump
I try
I wish
I do so until I've pushed past my limits
Until rebellious tears run down my face
Until it hurts so bad to try any longer
And I begin to break
Because the odd idea of touching the sky
Somehow transformed along the way
Into a dream, a need
something I had to achieve
And the irony of this fatal situation
Is that in my heart
As I tried
So hard that my molecules trembled
And began to disintegrate
Is that somewhere in my heart
I knew I would fail
For as I jumped and tried and wished
Still I would look down and see my feet
And they would be chained to the ground
An unbreakable bond
And from the start I knew
Even as my need for this began to flourish
That I would fail
I knew that I could not ever touch the sky
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