There are so many reasons why you never should:



I'm sometimes sullen, often shy, acutely sensitive.

My fears erupt as anger, I find it hard to give,



I talk about myself when I'm afraid

and often spend a day without anything to say.



But I will make you laugh and love you quite a bit

and hold you when you're sad.

I cry a little almost every day,

because I'm more caring than the strangers ever know.

And, at times I show my tender… Continue

My own smile is but a mirror of those around me

My own heart merely a reflection

Not of it's true self

For to show itself would reveal

That which others do not wish to see

You sit before the warmth of your fire

Yet here I stand inside the ashes

You looking in

I looking out

Hear not my sorrow and pain

See not my weeping

See only your own reflection within me

And go with peace in your… Continue

When I was growing up, we put our shoes in the closet the last

day of school at the beginning of summer. We didn't put them

on again until school started again on Labor Day. We didn't

need any shoes and to wear them in the summer would just wear

them out that much sooner. We walked through mud, creeks,

chicken poop, and even some yucky stuff, but we didn't care.

Nothing feels better to a young boy than to feel the soft,

cool grass beneath his feet. It must…

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