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You could’ve drawn a picture(or, at least, colored one in)

You could’ve started a book

Or finished a prayer

You could’ve talked to God

Pray

When was the last time you prayed?

Really prayed

This is a long poe, in fact, that you’ve already spent a ed a friend for a minute?

Or told them that you love them?

Tell your friends you love them

no, I mean it,

tell them

Say, I love you

Say, you

Because that is what friends do

Of all of the wonderful things that you could’ve done

During this very, very long poem

You could have connected

Maybe you are connecting

Maybe we’re connecting

See, I believe that the only things that really rand scheme of life are

God and people

And if people are e of God

Then when you spend your time with people

It’s never wasted

And in this very long poe to let a poes sis more complicated

We have each other for that

We need poes that reallytime

To be alive for the sake of sole moment

Or for many moments

’Cause we need each other

To hold the hands of a broken person

All you have to do is meet a person

Shake their hand

Look in their eyes

They are you

We are all broken together

But these shattered pieces of our existence don’t have to be a ues so poem

A story of a life

The joy of a friend and the grief of a friend

To hold and be held

And be quiet

So, pray

Write a postcard

Call your parents and forgive them and then thank them

Turn off the TV

Create art as best as you can

Share as much as possible, especiallypoeht you to them

SHE WIPES ANOTHER tear from her eye when the perfor with the rest of the crowd, corossed in the atain, I take her hand in mine We’ve been here close to two hours now and I’m sure she’s tired, based on the week she’s had Besides, I never stay for all of the perforin to stand up to lead her out of the booth when the emcee makes one last appeal for perforhts written clearly across her face

"Will, you can’t bring me here and not perform Please do one? Please, please, please?"

I had no intention of doing a poeht At all But oh,to make me do this, I can already tell There’s no way I can say no to those eyes I lean h "You’re killingnew"

"Do soests "Or do all these people make you nervous?"