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I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket. Sometimes I'm the slush that sticks to the bottom of your work pants, but I can easily be the melting snowflakes clinging to your long lashes. I know that some people like:sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, but you take me as I am and neverforget to pack an umbrella.Naomi Shihab Nye
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Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.Naomi Shihab Nye
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Let me peer out at the worldthrough your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blueis my turquoise and my orangeis your gold. Suddenly binarystars, we have startlinggravity. Let's comparescintillation - let's sharestarlight.Naomi Shihab Nye
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Like our parents alwaystold us not to likefirefighters warn againstwe're playinggames and makingthe rules upas we go we'rematchingwarmth to warmthstarting fires burningwishes into ourskin we're hiddenholdingforbidden lightswe're childrenwhose fathers havenever taught nevertouchbut we're findingthese new flameswe smotherat the sound of footsteps.Naomi Shihab Nye