We Are Afraid

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How many times
have they told you,
"You can be anything?"
Yet they hold you back.
How many times
have they told you,
"You can do anything?"
Yet they stop you.
They wonder why we can't decide,
why we second guess ourselves.
They don't realize
we are afraid...
of them.

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