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Alone, we are stuck
Alone, we lose out will

However, there's others around us
Others that can help
Others that can lift our spirits
Others that can help us achieve so much more than we can alone

Others gives us hope

-Sneha Birru

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In the thin road you are standing on, you might want to stop.
As you look down at your worn out boots,
you watch, as your eyesight starts to blur.

But it's alright
look back at how far you'd come
look front at what joys awaits you; ahead.

Now look down at your boots again.
Do you remember when your legs hurt,
from when the boots were stiff and the soles had no dirt?
Take a step forward.
Notice how they don't hurt anymore?
It's because they're worn out;
you walked enough for them to become worn out.

Worn out boots are easier to walk in
so take a deep breath in,
take a deep breath out.
Look straight forward,
and take a stroll.

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A Good Day                                        - Prisha Shrestha

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A Good Day                                        - Prisha Shrestha

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I thought I would wake up
To the same gloomy world
But today was different
A new chapter had uncurled

There was light in the sky
The sun was shining bright
We came out of the shadows
Knowing that it was going to be alright

From good to bad, and bad to worse
It felt like we were being put under
A never ending curse

But today was different
It wasn’t the same gloomy world
Today we felt hope
A new chapter had uncurled

Today was a good day
For one and for all
We will rise up in hope
And recover from the fall

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I wake up to a morning and see that things are a little bit different
Though I still wake up in the same bed,
In the outside world bad things never seem to end.
The news of peoples sorrow seep into my head,
And the mood and thoughts I had seem to bend.

The world keeps going though.
And yet again I wake up to a morning.
The pattern continues and the news keeps going.

But every now and then it seems like there is hope.
Our growth seems to lead to a good end.
And I sleep with that thought in my head.
The anticipation of hope is what makes me wake up to yet another mourning.
And this will continue until I wake up and see that there's no mourning,
That instead there is only a morning.

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Testing times really do help us become the best of beings
We experienced and learned
All this stress we go through might mess with our feelings
But with the new knowledge we earned
We will stand up for what is right
We will make this world bright

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Like Atlas we fall, and like Atlas we rise

The world on our shoulders, the darkest of skies.

We try to be hopeful, we try not to fight

We try and we try, with strength and with might

But hate is a game, an innumerable thing

If we don’t try hard enough, it’ll come in full swing

So like Atlas we fall, and like Atlas we rise

We hold the the weight of the world

And our hope in the skies

For Atlas the pain was tremendous to bear

And all of the weight was held up by a hair,

Another ounce of grief, another ounce of defeat

And Atlas would fall and not rise to his feet.

Like Atlas we fall, and like Atlas we try

To surrender to storm, to turn our blind eyes

The weight on our backs from the grief in our minds

A world unattainable, we fall down the hills

We want to surrender, leave dreams unfulfilled.

For even as we grew, we grieved

And even as we hoped, we hurt

And though we tried, we tired

And the weight on our shoulders gave us one last chill

Like Atlas we fell, but we never rose

We gave way to our knees, we felt numb in our toes

And the world gave way, and the world started to fall

We couldn’t get up, or catch up to the hope-filled ball

Like Atlas we fell, and the world fell too

We didn’t fight, and we knew it was true

We knew our defeat was sowed by division

And we still fought ourselves, not together

Our final decision.

Like Atlas we fell, the weight on our shoulders

Like Atlas we fought, but the hate came in boulders

Like Atlas we cried, and like Atlas we grieved

But unlike for Atlas, for us, the world fell at its seams.

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It has been many days since we entered this new stage
So lost, climbing the same hill but always falling

In hard times, we live in despair
Surrounded by the darkness
Nothing seems fair

But the truth is, is that the light is concealed
And we have to stand up and reach for the calling

Because at the end,
everything will be healed
and the change will be appalling

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As the hope we love comes to fail,
We stare into the night sky
And our hearts turn stale
Opposite of high

The burdens return
Striking us where it hits the hardest
It leaves more than a burn
As the virus reaps its harvest

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We fight the worst of the world

We face hardship that leaves us knurled

But in the end, our brain gains another wrinkle

Bringing out the best of us, as we inevitably dwindle

No matter our indifference

We all will make a difference

So as we fight on, we may just be dust in the wind

As worst brings out the best of us, we fight to say in

- Joey Goodenough

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Those who are alone
Have the most love

Those born at the bottom
Have the the ambition to rise above

And if you've felt that pain
Then don't wallow in your own misery
Grow and make history

-Shreyas Suresh

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The stars shine different somehow,
When all of our light reflects upon them.
The reason they shine brighter to me now,
Is that humanity is a gem.

While the light may be dim,
And the stars may be few.
I know our chances aren’t slim,
If only we all knew.

We, in the dark,
Must find our light.
We have to find our spark,
That shines oh so bright.

In the end we will all see, 
That we came out happy as can be.

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We strive to create a better life,

We take ourselves out of the pain to share the light,

The pandemic tears us apart, but we stay in the fight,

Because soon we will overcome the darkness, despair, and destruction,

And fill the air with hope, happiness, and a hard-working spirit,

So to the hill that we continue to climb,

On our way back is where we will be defined.

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When hard times occur,
Everything becomes a blur

We feel lost
Because we’re paying the cost
We feel sad
Because everything went bad

But in the end,
Everything will mend

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Every morning we wake up to see the trees the grass the streets
See the birds the dogs the wildlife strolling past on their morning walk

They live without knowledge of the world crumbling around them
They live only with knowledge of what is good and bad hurt and heal life or death

We live in a world of wonder crowded out by background noise
We miss the wonders of discovery almost every day

But somehow now we can see the light in that we previously had to fake with screens
We may be living in dark but our own light lights up the world

We see a puppy learn to walk and plant a seed that leads to a delicious meal
Although we feel the darkness closing in as our world crumbles many hold it back
By discovering the world those animals outside our windows see every day

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Life is a series of ups and downs

The downs will often seem larger than the ups

But to truly see we need to look around

The world may seem full of gloom

It may seem like there's no going back to how it used to be

But eventually the world will bloom

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In these trying times
We may find it hard to climb

But if we fall
We must stand tall

We must face the cannot
We cannot socialize but
We can sympathize
We cannot restabilitize but
We can realize

That in these trying times
We can be together
Apart

- Colton Carroll

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We mourn the loss of the ones we didn't know.
The guilt we carry for sitting aside,
Watching them go.

How did we walk into the tide,
Unexpecting the tsunami to collide.

We must let go of the ones we didn't know,
And guide tomorrow with the reins of yesterday.

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We faced the days of loneliness

And our despair seemed to be endless

When we could not give you our last kiss,

Our hopes and dreams seemed to flee away

But when we realized how you were so missed,

That is when we realized that love isn't far away

I should have treated you better,

I should have sent you more letters,

But we can't regret our loss

For it is in loss that we truly learn to love.

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The end is never the end

After you clean up one mess, there is always another

Two messes cleaned up, and there's a third

It's something you can't control

It's a test you can't study for

But it helps us grow

Even more than we know

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In dark times, remember the light

Giving us hope, it shines from the little things

Bright as a star through sadness and plight

In joy it clings, and does not squander

Determined to stay, it weathers through night

When shadows weigh heavy, and there is no hope in sight

Always remember that there is light

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The Hill Of Pain

We all move up a hill of pain.
For we as a society walk on this plane.
In harmony and in hope.
We keep our heads out of the water.
We must move
And we must prove.
Prove our worth to the world and to others so dearly close.

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Long, wrong, day,

When will it go away?

We get up in the morning,

Always full of mourning;

Because there is no meaning,

To stand tall, faces beaming.

And so each day is the same;

We feel it so with shame.

But hope that a time will come,

Where we will not feel numb.

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On hills and rocks lighthouses sit.

Rays from their windows lightly hit

The sea on which the ships do sail

Far away from home. And Hail!

The light will show them all the way

To get home safely, through the fray.

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We all have our struggles and strifes
As we all look forward to a better life
As the rain pitter patters on our hope and dreams
The rainbow comes out, for all to see.
Lets all rise up and reach our dreams
By climbing up the hill that tells us to give up and scream
In the end, lets be the hill climbers and light a trail for all to see
And be the person we want to be by climbing up, the hill we climb
The hill, we all climb