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The Little Paper Airplane
God made this little paper airplane broken
It was his test
The little paper airplane loved to do the things that paper airplanes love
He loved to go to paper airplane school
And he loved to play the paper airplane flute
And he loved his parents
And he loved his paper airplane older sister
But the little paper airplane wasn't like the rest
The other paper planes would soar among the clouds
Hand in hand they conquered the heavens
But God made this little paper airplane broken
And while the rest of the paper airplanes laughed and lived among the birds
The little paper airplane cried at home
The little paper airplane tried his hardest
Always
He tried to be the best brother he could be
And the best friend he could
When his paper airplane friends were down he would smile and say
“It'll be ok”
He would put them on his back
He would use all of his paper airplane might
And be push and push until his paper airplane friend
Was flying again
But God made this paper airplane broken
And all the good works in the world wouldn't make him feel whole
The little paper airplane had a paper airplane lady friend
She was nice to him
When everyone else laughed at him for being broken
She would just take him in her paper airplane arms and she would say
“Forget them. I know how it feels.”
The little paper airplane was ecstatic
“Finally” he thought
“Finally i am happy”
“Finally I can feel ok about myself”
But god made this little paper airplane broken
And the little paper airplane didn't know his bounds
He had no one other than his paper airplane lady friend
He thought of her at every hour
He would ask her all the time to go to the paper airplane ice cream shop
Or go skating at the paper airplane ice skating rink
Then one day she ignored him
The little paper airplane thought it was a mistake
So he asked again
She stopped talking with him at all
The little paper airplane asked her, “hey, is everything ok?”
And she turned to him and said
“I don't love you anymore”
The little paper airplane couldn't breathe
His days were dark and meaningless
His paper airplane grades suffered
He ate less paper airplane food
One day he decided
“I will no longer feel bad for myself”
So when he went to paper airplane school
Every time he saw someone get hurt
When he would usually wince
The little paper airplane tried to laugh
His practice became a habit
Until he forgot all about the paper airplane lady
Then he moved to a new paper airplane school
He met a paper airplane girl
She was cute
And she loved to play the paper airplane flute
Like him
He got her paper airplane phone number
He sent her a few texts
And he was going to ask her on a date
His message was already typed on his paper airplane phone
He started to reread it
To check for paper airplane grammar issues
And he realized
He didn't love her
He looked deep into his paper airplane heart
Grasping for any emotion
To get a grip on his racing paper airplane mind
He thought of his paper airplane sister
And his perfect paper airplane parents
And he felt
nothing
Because our little paper airplane had left himself
Broken
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