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Mabeline's Poetry Corner: YOU BELIEVED

by Mabel Howard
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September 24, 2026 at 8:00 AM

YOU BELIEVED

To be successful

To go back to school

School, a place for higher learning

School, a place that can raise your earnings

Earnings, the cost one pays for services

Earnings, will help you along this journey

 

Journey, constant movement into a direction

Journey, steps towards your future dreams

Dreams, of becoming known, not just seen

Dreams, to create paths that will lighten burdens

Burdens, no one should have to carry alone

Burdens, keep you away from places you belong

 

Belong, everyone should experience a sense of it

Belong, being yourself, not ever trying to fit in

In, a place you stay for as long as you want

In, and Out the way you choose to move

Move, strategically… there's no rush to the end

Move, after you observe where you want to land

 

Land, because you've discovered the right foundation

Land, as you have written and also believed

BELIEVED, that you could truly move mountains

BELIEVED, that you would make it and bring others with you

YOU, born to lead all that were ready to follow

YOU, received the blessings because you focused on the PLAN.

 

Mabeline can be reached at gamewithmabel@gmail.com

 

Mabeline's Poetry CornerYou BelievedMable HowardOriginal poem

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