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Clever Boy

May 17, 2022
By Anonymous

Clever boy,

hair in your eyes,

smile on your lips,

the whole wide world

at your eager fingertips.

Your knuckles cracked

holding tight to the lifeline

but here you are,

you made it out just fine.

You’ve built yourself

quite the beautiful life,

patched every hole

and made it whole.

From drowning boy

to Cap-i-tan—

the world said ‘sink’

and you said ‘swim,’

now you say ‘jump’

and the world says ‘when?’

How far you’ve come,

hair in your eyes,

smile on your lips,

the whole wide world

at your eager fingertips.



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