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Save the Life


by Darryl Price


of your lost childhood from 
wherever you are now. You would know 
that sweet little face anywhere. Horror 
didn't dim that light as much as 
cruel indifference. Kids believe in 

anything as everything. They see 
all the hungry monsters, no matter 
what fashionable clothes the beasts are 
wearing, passing in the street. The problem 
has always been adults, because 

they no longer remember seeing 
things others can't, except adults simply 
won't allow that kind of insight 
into their hearts anymore. In most 
sad cases, it comes too late when they 

do. We've seen it on the news. Save the life 
of your most innocent childhood memories. 
Do no more harm, let no more 
harm be done in your name. Save the home 
of your own deepest feelings. You can't 

possibly save anyone else from 
themselves, but you can be a friend to 
an old familiar stranger in 
the mirror. Save the life of that little 
boy thrown into the future without 

a kindly care for the violent 
currents. Save the life of that little 
girl told to always fake it to 
make it. Save the life of your own strawberry 
field sanctuary. Save the

life of your own real name. It comes with the 
real you. Don't have to pretend you 
are drowning in dreaming. Claim the one 
that claims you without forcing the issue 
into a too small or too large 

space for your comfort. You know you. See 
you again. Recognize yourself as
the one who is standing there where you 
used to be. Save the beat of your own 
life as you contribute to the music 

of the spheres. It's your right, your destiny, 
your own cosmic signature 
in your own heavenly book of love 
and light. Save the excuses for the 
next garbage bin pick up. Save a small 

remembrance for me. Save the life of 
all that kid believed made for a good 
day in the life. It's your own treasure 
map, left by your own pirate self. But, 
most of all, save the courage it took.
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