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Rated: E · Poetry · Emotional · #2155904

A poem from four years ago from my old account.

One can not live just by existing.
You can exist in the background and let life pass you by but that is not living.
To live is to have meaning, a sense of purpose.
Live to love, show compassion and gratitude.
When you do mean it.
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