My Life To Give

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I am the bud and the blossom, I am the late-falling leaf

I am always there for you, both in joy and in grief

For you are my existence, my reason to live

And all that I ask,

Is that you allow me to you

My life to give

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Padre

Written for dVerse Beyond Meaning or The Resolution of Opposites. Prompt from Paul Dunbar’s The Paradox.