<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">The Longing</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Do not pretend that The Longing</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">has not also lived in you</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">swinging like a pendulum.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">You have been lost</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">and thieved like a criminal</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">your heart</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">into the darkness.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">But life is tired, Dear Friend</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">of going on</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">without you.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">It is like the hand of the mother</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">who has lost the child.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">And if you are anything like me, you have been afraid.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">And if you are anything like me</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">You have known your own courage.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">There is room in this boat:</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">take your seat.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Take up your paddle, and all of us</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">All of us</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">shall row our hearts</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">back</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">home.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 1em; color: rgb(33, 33, 28); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Em Claire</div></body></html>