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Redeemed

August 11, 2015
By KayRae GOLD, Arlington Hts, Illinois
KayRae GOLD, Arlington Hts, Illinois
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Favorite Quote:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.


He says I Am redeemed
from the lies that hop
out of my mouth like
warted toads.
from me lusting after
intertwined legs and
tangled tongues with
clothes smeared onto
the red stained carpet.
from the time I imprinted
my knuckles into my
Mom’s delicate cheek
bones.
From the words that
stab like knives and
cut open old battle
wounds,
that choke like inhaling
second hand cigarette
smoke.
From the unplanned
conception and the
pre meditated murder
of my own blood and
the soul that fits in
the crevice of my hand.
But He says I Am
redeemed.



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