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\u00a0She said, stick to your voice<\/h4>\n

Don’t let anyone tell you neither<\/p>\n

They will come as they go<\/p>\n

As life as always let me behind<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

She said, fear the friends<\/p>\n

Of the ostrich and the vultures<\/p>\n

They have wings<\/p>\n

And they will fly<\/p>\n

And their legs will leave you behind<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

She said, walk by the path<\/p>\n

For the sun is yet to go down<\/p>\n

When it does the lamp comes on<\/p>\n

So that old age won’t be a waste<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

She said,\u00a0 run now that you can<\/p>\n

Your muscled feet will puff<\/p>\n

And scram the forest<\/p>\n

For there, the meat lies<\/p>\n

So that you won’t grow up hungry<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

She said, be selfish once to thyself<\/p>\n

But give to others, learn to give<\/p>\n

Giving is seed<\/p>\n

The flower is the blessing<\/p>\n

So that your hands\u00a0 won’t be folded<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

She said, lead the way<\/p>\n

Because no one will want to<\/p>\n

But they will follow you<\/p>\n

When you are not static<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

She said, don’t be afraid<\/p>\n

Fear is just a friend<\/p>\n

So that when death comes kicking<\/p>\n

You won’t be caught unaware.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

My Momma said.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0She said, stick to your voice Don’t let anyone tell you neither They will come as they go As life as always let me behind   She said, fear the friends Of the ostrich and the vultures They have wings And they will fly And…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62247,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61809\/revisions\/62247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}