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“All human life has its seasons, and no one’s personal chaos can be permanent: winter, after all does not last forever does it? There is summer, too, and spring, and though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, that summer, but they do, and always."
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Song for Brad

36 years
can’t count the tears
which fall before
your life of labor

the youngest child
so brave and mild
a family
of grace and beauty

you couldn’t turn your heart away
from feeling someone else’s pain
a heart so strong
a life not long enough

you gave your life
for others’ rights
and now you’ve won
a silent freedom

you couldn’t turn your eyes away
from hardships others have to face
a heart so strong
a life not long enough

you heard a call
to rise and follow
the road unpaved,
forgotten way,
a sign of grace

you couldn’t turn your head away
from all the troubles others face
a heart so strong
a life not long enough

you lived so much
for truth you sought
left not in vain
but to make change

you’d never turn yourself away
from helping someone else feel safe
a heart so strong
a life not long enough, not long enough...


you may be gone
never forgotten

I just loved that kid

Stephanie Rogers
http://www.hipchick.com

 
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