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What is a Man?

February 7, 2012
By FallDownAngels SILVER, Los Angeles, California
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"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”

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What is a man,
but of his own memory.
Flesh and blood,
barriers to ones personality.

Decisions we make,
creates our history.
The tears we shed,
fade away with the dieing memory of a man.

© Ellie S., Mt. Washington, KY

The author's comments:
My insperation is my dead uncle, no one ever recalls him or takes the time to make a prayer in his name, to others hes simply a faded memory or a shadow of the past... to my uncle whom I love and cherish his memory
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