My wish for you
Is that you continue
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To be who and how you are
To astonish a mean world
With your act of kindness
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To allow humor to lighten the burden
Of your tender heart
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In a society dark with cruelty
To let the people hear the grandeur
Of God in the peals of your laughter
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To let your eloquence
Elevate the people to hights
They had only imagined
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To remind the people that
Each is as good as the other
And that no one is beneath
Nor above you
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To remember your own young years
And look with favor upon the lost
And the least and the lonely ...