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The Climb

October 13, 2012
By hardyboy9 GOLD, Hoover, Alabama
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hardyboy9 GOLD, Hoover, Alabama
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I'm a lover, not a fighter, but I'll fight for what I love.

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I climbed until blisters bred
Kept climbing
I climbed until my hands bled
Kept climbing
I climbed until handprints said
Who are you?
I climbed until my arms were dead
But by the time I finished they knew

© Julie Baxt, New City, NY

The author's comments:
This is a true poem I was inspired to write after I climbed to the top of a boulder and realized my fingerprints were worn away.
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