How many times can one person be reinvented

I have run from myself so many times

I have fled from who I am

in order to be someone better

But always I fall short

Always I fail

Always I become someone changed but still the same

Always I leave behind the good

And carry with me the bad

I flee from the things I hate

Like a bat out of hell

I try to outrun the parts of my...

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Open your books,

On page seventy-two.

Read these sides,

And learn about the past,

Which is not anymore.

We learn about war,

About hate and racism,

And they call it past,

And close their eyes

To not see reality.

One day, they will,

I hope, will understand,

That to be in denial,

Doesn't help altogether.

Because in the end,

Nothing changed a...

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