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YOUR ECHO

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As a child, I wandered off

Innocently in a strange world

Where I have yet to master

Discernment of harm and danger

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I’d put up my bravado,

Put my confidence in your example;

Said if you have endured it,

Then you would walk me through it

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As I grew older,

So did my world get tougher;

Went looking for your shadow

That I expected to guide me

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I thought I’d lost my way

But then there’s a voice inside my head;

A woman trying to direct me

Back to your path that awaits me

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As I tried to follow,

I realized ’twas not where I wanted to go;

Said I’d rather go on my own

Than to keep losing you

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I took a step back and looked from afar;

The path I once took –

Your path that I followed,

Was too much for a child to handle

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I struggled a long time

Trying to manage my own path;

I cried countless times

Thinking how could I not be of your standards

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At times when I fall,

I would find myself alone;

Blinded by my insecurity

That I was not enough

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Then again I heard that rescuing voice,

Leading me to a safer world –

A world that filled my brokenness

With warmth like the one you gave to others

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Two different paths shaped me,

Paths that led me to my own journey;

Finally, I learned to love

The person that I have become

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My wisdom, the reflection

Of that kind woman’s heart;

My strength, the echo

Of all the pain you caused me