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- From: smithm@columbia.dsu.edu (Matthew P. Smith)
- Subject: an "re:" to all who need
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- Organization: Dakota State University
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:12:03 GMT
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- "I need..." said I
- "I need to walk
- through the forest
- on a sunny summer day..."
-
- "I want..." I cried
- "For every damned little thing to go my way"
-
- "But I know..." I mused
- "That I was born with this hand
- of cards"
-
- "That I must take and give as
- Fate sees fit...
- drop or call: I can still do it"
-
- And I know, yes,
- I know
- that it's not easy
- to walk your path
- I take the bad and the good
- and I, understood
- Fate deserves not your wrath
- for we were born
- and we exist
- with all it is we need to live
- the rest is up to us
- oh, it's all in our minds
- to learn to take and to give
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- We all need
- it is a fact
- but it ain't written
- in any contract
- we didn't ask to be born
- and most don't ask to die
- and those who do keep asking why
-
- we can survive
- there is always a way
- it may be there
- in tomorrow
- or it may be written in today
- but it is up to you
- to look
- for what it is
- you REALLY need
- it is that _one_
- single goal
- each one striving for your own
- each one chasing their dream
- each one following that star to the east
- you have to know yourself
- and your one, single goal
- before your need can be released.
- -M. Perry Seger
- .- Change -mps ---------.
- .-- things change so readily --------.
- .--- i could sit and let the world pass by -------.
- .---- but that just would not help me ------.
- .----- i have to change the when and the why -----.
- .------ depression's nice to suit my mood ----.
- .------- but life retreats in context there ---.
- .-------- so i must change my mood to match --.
- .--------- and play my part; pretend i care -.
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