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Becoming Light

December 6, 2013
By TyraD GOLD, West Helena, Arkansas
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TyraD GOLD, West Helena, Arkansas
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Favorite Quote:
Never limit yourself to what you think is beyond your reach.

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You hurt me. Singled me out. Time and time again, i have been your shadow. Putting me down. Telling me I was nothing and i could never be at your level. So i fell to believe it and I became low, so low I couldn't look myself in the mirror. I guess i was shame or maybe just guilty. But then there came a time where I belived in myself and you couldn't say or do nothing to bring me down. You call yourself sophisticated but i just call you amature... imature. So find yourself before you tell me who I am.

© Roxanne D., San Antonio, TX

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People will tell you all day long that you are nothing beacuse you allow it to get to you. But when you rise up and find yourself, you will become you, and that other person will just be irrelevant.
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