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Created on: May 17, 2008
Silent Respects
I stand today, look and see,
a path a way was cleared for me.
Long ago wise ones knew
that opportunity soon would be few,
to work, to teach, each elder did fly
to establish a road we might travel by.
now we stride here day by day,
with little thoughts and tiny words,
'tis our respects we pay.
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