You Are My Past by Shernette Shaw

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You Are My Past

I will not allow you to stop me
To tear me apart
 To blind me.
Am going to fight you
Can’t you just be who you are?
My past, that’s who you are.
Am going to rise 
While you stay behind
You are just my past and
I will not allow you to stop me.




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