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Always Growing

May 29, 2014
By giogiron BRONZE, Berwyn, Illinois
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giogiron BRONZE, Berwyn, Illinois
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Favorite Quote:
"[Courage] is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see through it no matter what.”--Atticus Finch

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Rain coming down through

thunderous clouds of black in your head.
The world is gray in your eyes.
Sometimes it rains so much your eyes will show it.
Depression hits you and you are its lightning rod.
The days are longer and greyer.
You sink further down the sinkhole until you're drowning in the rain.
The ground buries you until you are nothing but fertilizer.

Until one day the rain stops.
The sun comes out.
You sprout.

A beautiful sunflower.

© Steve A., Goodyear, AZ

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I wrote this to give people hope while experiencing depression.
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