am having a problem, am trying to retrieve texts in file, but am only getting the last line. am not getting all lines

other thing, i would like to have lines outputted in colors like blue and red

Thanks

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

use strict;
use warnings;
use Template;
use CGI qw/:standard/;

my $template = Template->new;
my $cgi = CGI->new;
my $text = $cgi->param("text");

my $show;
my $success;

# Open this file
my $file = "ezt.txt";

open my $fh, '<', $file;
    
while(chomp(my $line = <$fh>)) {
    $show = "$line\n";
}

# if doesnt exits then create it 

if (!$show) {
unless(open FILE, '>'.$file) {
    die "\nUnable to create $file\n";
}

# Write some text to the file.

print FILE "Hello there\n"; 
print FILE "How are you?\n";
}

# always append to text file if you want

if ($text) {
    
open(my $fd, ">>$file");
print $fd "$text\n";

$success = "New text added successfully to file.";

}

# close the file.
close FILE;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
my $temp = <<HTML;

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<form method="post">
<textarea rows="4" cols="50">
 [% FOREACH text IN list %]
 [% text %]
 [% END %]
  </textarea>
  <br>
  <input type="text" name="text">
  <input type="submit" value="Submit">
  <p style="color:green;">$success</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

HTML

$template->process (\$temp, { list => $show })
        or die $template->error;

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