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Without….

Without pain we wouldn’t know gain,
Without bad we wouldn’t know good,
The brain needs some tears to calm the fears,
And the body needs something sweet
to make it through the heat

Without tall there would be no short,
Old without new,
Would make nothing true,
Without sadness, we wouldn’t know gladness
Smile after gloom,
Knowing tiny, gives you more room

Having none makes you glad
To at least have some,
Rich to poor,
Less or more,
Without one, you can’t have the other,
Without black there is no white,
We need the sun to show off the night,

Without boys, girls wouldn’t matter,
Nor would their chatter,
It’d all become clatter,
Quite and loud, come hand in hand,
We need symphonies
To show off one-man bands,
We need fat to see the skinny,
And dirty to make things seem clean,
Without a king
There wouldn’t be a queen

All is here to compare and share,
We need it all to play it fair,
The game of life
Is worth plunging through,
Sometimes you may have only one shoe,
But wear silk socks,
Then trip on the rocks,
But make your way home,
Which you’ve made
into your own
personal Rome.