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Someone Once Told Me

The world is an odd place

A living, breathing contradiction.

Someone once told me

That good people make bad choices.

And bad people can make good ones.

Someone once told me

That no one is completely

Good or bad.

Like yin and yang 

There is bad and good

And everyone is a bit tainted

By those they touch.

Someone once told me

That bad actions outweigh good intentions.

And bad intentions

In disguise as good actions

Are malicious in nature.

And someone once told me

The world can be as good

Or as bad

As the people 

Living and breathing in it.

Someone, wise beyond their age,

Once told me

There's bad and good in the world

And the one I feed into

Will conquer my soul.