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"Time"

June 6, 2012
By imjustme12 GOLD, Long Beach, New York
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"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."
--Harriet Tubman

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Valuable, nonrenewable
too expensive to waste

Time is life,
it expires too fast

Tick tock, tick tock,
a few seconds have past
Valuable, nonrenewable

The hands on the clock
grasp time, they never let go
Time so powerful, it must pass

It passes so fast,
As if it's time itself, disguised.

© Tatyana Z., Norwood, MA

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