Take the clouding from your vision.
Take the padding from your ears.
Then confess you've heard my crying
And admit that you've seen my tears. Did you want to see me broken?
My head bowed and lowered eyes?
My shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by all of my soulful cries.
You might shoot me with your words.
You might cut me with your eyes.
You will kill me with your hatefulness.
But even then, I will still rise.
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Congratulations.
You are the official proof that people with more teeth
than brain cells shouldn't breed with each other.