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<p>You…</p><p>Yes, you.</p><p><br/></p><p>The quiet miracle still standing</p><p>after a day that tried to fold you</p><p>like weak paper in a violent wind.</p><p><br/></p><p>You,</p><p>the one who smiled in public</p><p>while your spirit wrestled thunderstorms in private.</p><p><br/></p><p>Listen.</p><p><br/></p><p>What almost broke you today</p><p>will become the Google map</p><p>someone else study tomorrow.</p><p><br/></p><p>Your wounds will whisper courage</p><p>to a blind man who believes</p><p>the night has no morning.</p><p><br/></p><p>You…</p><p>Yes, you.</p><p><br/></p><p>Don’t you see</p><p>how downgrade you were graded</p><p>by canal-minded soils,</p><p>until the farm pesticide</p><p>upgraded you?</p><p><br/></p><p>You…</p><p>Yes, you.</p><p><br/></p><p>Don’t you see</p><p>how they zeroed you into nothing,</p><p>reduced you to dust and dismissal,</p><p>until a ladder rose from your struggle</p><p>and lifted you into something?</p><p><br/></p><p>You…</p><p>Yes, you.</p><p><br/></p><p>Classified as an empty thing,</p><p>a hollow echo in crowded rooms,</p><p>until nonstop effort</p><p>turned your emptiness </p><p>into an entity.</p><p><br/></p><p>You…</p><p>Yes, you.</p><p><br/></p><p>Standing between greatness</p><p>and mediocrity,</p><p>because every life</p><p>is remembered for something.</p><p><br/></p><p>Tell me</p><p>how many could survive</p><p>the storms you survived?</p><p><br/></p><p>Would you back off or keep walking towards what you will be remembered for ? </p><p><br/></p><p>How many souls</p><p>could swallow the thunder</p><p>you drank like a bitter leaf soup made with only water ? </p><p><br/></p><p>Yet here you are.</p><p><br/></p><p>Still breathing.</p><p>Still rising.</p><p>Still becoming.</p><p><br/></p><p>You…</p><p>Yes, you.</p><p><br/></p><p>You are a testimony</p><p>that storms do not always destroy</p><p>sometimes they reveal.</p><p><br/></p><p>And what they revealed</p><p>is simple:</p><p><br/></p><p>You…</p><p>Yes, you.</p><p><br/></p><p>You are beautiful.</p><p>© Muhammad Mercurial</p>
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