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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">Doha<a name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); "><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">“Life is an impossible dare”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">With eyes fixed on the top of the mountain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">Dare to rest in not knowing and gaze instead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">On the blank page<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); "><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>the
lump of clay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); "><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the empty stage<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); "><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>the still fountain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">They await only your remembering…..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">How you once followed your own curiosity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">When each act was an exploration<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">Back before a thought was an idea<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">before an urge became a plan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">When you were free to doodle, peering<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); "><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Into
the expanse of expression<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); "><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>No
hesitating, no fearing</span><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">It didn’t matter then how you looked<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">in other people’s eyes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">And it doesn’t matter now….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">After all our work, perhaps we <i>can</i></span><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); "> just show up,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); "><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>honestly
and without expectation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); "><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">So, with a light touch and much tenderness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">Let us proceed, one sound at a time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">Stepping inside the world of each song,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">Holding it all so gently,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">Grateful for an audience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); "><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); "><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> - </span></span><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); ">Fran Carbonaro<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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