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We like to appear altogether,
  we can make it on our own.
Yet there are so many tiny wounds
  which surrender us once again,
We are stronger in community,
  we are better in surrender,
We are fuller in our weakness,
  we are stronger in sickness.
It shows us the door to reliance,
  to the fierce value of friends,
To the facets of ourselves only
  discovered through the eyes
Of another and the circle made
  round and full of life.