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  2. title = "Parent"
  3. author = ["Colin Powell"]
  4. date = 2019-12-01
  5. categories = ["misc"]
  6. draft = false
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  8. <p class="verse">
  9. To be the parent node, or the source of life<br />
  10. For something beyond what you yourself contain,<br />
  11. Is a special position, in a world of relationship.<br />
  12. <br />
  13. The reason for existence for something so small,<br />
  14. And the source of a desperate persistence in the world,<br />
  15. Soon strong enough to declare itself independent.<br />
  16. <br />
  17. Of the source of life, only the parent knows<br />
  18. How fragile the connection can feel sometimes—<br />
  19. How tenuous the lines that draw the child node back.<br />
  20. <br />
  21. No parent can insure life against tragedy, and no<br />
  22. child node can escape the truth of it's source.<br />
  23. This is all we're given to go on, and yet we go.<br />
  24. </p>