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On the Long Road Home

May 6, 2011
By goadie SILVER, Indianapolis, Indiana
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goadie SILVER, Indianapolis, Indiana
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"You must accept finite defeat, and never lose infinite hope," - Martin Luther King

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Take the long road home,
outside the beaten path.
For beaten paths are for beaten men,
with scars from life's wrath.
And you my child should follow me,
no one knows it better than I.
So follow me onward back home,
where the footsteps of the forgotten lie.

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Hope, Faith, Courage, Perseverance
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