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To my parents… My life I owe it to my parents; Who sacrificed their desires in life to fulfill mine. They have left no stone unturned, To make my life divine! When in my childhood during play; In the midst of happy and gay, I fell down and h urt my knee, My dad gently lifted me up and asked me to join my friends back in glee. When I was surrounded with worry and fluster; My mom didn’t leave my side ever, Rather she stood by me all the time, With her beautiful heart, lovely and sublime. Yet when they needed me sometimes, I only said, “Everything is going to be fine!” And they with a heavy yet hopeful heart, Waited with a painful pine. Life went upside down when I became a teenaged girl, The world of mixed feelings surprised me with its vast vicious whirl. And little did I know that the world was taking me away from my father and mother, Yet I enjoyed all the incredible glamour this world had to offer. And then came the time to face the world alone, Competitions, fights, rejections on my way were sown, I stood like a lone, but all I had were my mom and dad; 1