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Twenty years ago today
Twenty years ago today you saw the outside
World for the first time, twenty years ago
Today you saw your mother and father's faces
For the first time
Twenty years ago today, you began
A life full of sorrow and happiness
Twenty years ago today you began to hear
Something other than muffled sounds and
The sound of your mother's heartbeat
You
Heard yourself cry for the first time
You heard others cry too
You heard electronic devices and doors
Opening and closing and a lot of voices
Some melodic, others harsh and ugly
You have lost and found so much since that day
But do no feel much smarter or wiser than you did then

You feel absolutely childlike, absolutely childlike
Naive without experience
But ironically, you are completely ready to handle any
Success or failure the future will bring both of
Which you've been avoiding like [?] itself
No more false expectations
No more lying to yourself
No more waiting for life to begin
No more waiting
For things to be perfect, you know they never will be
You know they never will be