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DawnG
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0 posted 2001-03-14 11:03 PM


Please don't label me
I'm not an envelope
traveling across the miles.
Please don't categorize me
I'm not inventory in a store.
Please don't group me
I'm not a set of numbers.

What am I?

I am complex,
a simple word
cannot tell you,
what makes up,
the whole of my being.

A single catagory
cannot tell you,
that I am a daughter,
a sister, a cousin, a niece,
a grandaughter, a friend,
a student, and a dancer.

A single group cannot describe
all my talents, all my hobbies,
all my abilities, and all my challenges.

Everyday I venture through lifes many paths,
making me so much more than I was yesterday,
designing my life to be without labels,
because I am: ~ME~




[This message has been edited by DawnG (edited 03-14-2001).]

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Embers_Before_God
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since 2001-03-06
Posts 101
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1 posted 2001-03-15 04:19 AM


feels good to be your own person...thanks for sharing...embers
ellie LeJeune
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since 2000-01-10
Posts 4156
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2 posted 2001-03-15 07:43 AM


Dawn, A beautiful poem of loving who you are! I hate labels too, they are so demeaning and as you said, never touch on the whole of who we are..Love, Ellie

A friend hears the song in my heart, and sings it to me when my memory fails.

2dalimit
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since 2000-02-08
Posts 2228
Mississippi coast
3 posted 2001-03-15 11:49 AM


DawnG,
I like what you have to say and in a splendid poetic way.
I don't remember which wonderful poet posted the following, but it is similar to what you convey.
"I heard somebody say,
God makes us all the same.
If that is so, then all I have
Is just a different name!"
Melton

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4 posted 2001-03-16 08:41 PM


Interesting thoughts

Don't ever give in, if you do you've lost everything you've ever had and everything you hope to gain, but if you carry on your already winning.


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