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After A While
After a while, you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soulAnd you learn the love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't always mean securityAnd you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promisesAnd you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes aheadWith the grace of a woman and not the grief of a childAnd you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much. So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for somebody to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure that you are really strong and that you really do have worth.And you learn and you learn, with every goodbye you learn. by Veronica A. Shoffstall (1971)
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