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Save One

May 26, 2018
By audreytreptow SILVER, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
audreytreptow SILVER, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Favorite Quote:
“...we should be remembered for the things we do. The things we do are the most important things of all. They are more important than what we say or what we look like. The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honour heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honour the Pharaohs. Only instead of being made out of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you. That's why your deeds are like your monuments. Built with memories instead of with stone.” - RJ Palacio


Take our mothers and our fathers
Take the children we hold so dear
Take my soul far beyond Death’s reach
For the real suffering is in surviving
To live in the past’s dismay
To be so close to breaking
To never break still
How vulnerable our lives our to tragedy
How the ones who face it and survive it are the most tragic of all
He who kills the love that once pierced our hearts so blind
I who once had everything
I do not make the sacrifice
I am the sacrifice
I live only to save the ignorant-
The blind
For every tragedy
Save one to tell the tale



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