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Recorded Reading (0:57): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s2lc6wq2crg8s02fz2v72/Dare-Boldly.wav?rlkey=sqrq1kcb0ipyq3mezcryjx9t3&dl=0

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Dare Boldly

Dare boldly to conduct an open heart
Through this world’s fields of groaning misery
Dare to reach out, some comfort to impart
Though, all about it, untouched sorrow be

Dare boldly those less fortunate among,
Unfearing of their misery, to go
Dare boldly, that by you be clearly sung
Their song, so that the privileged may know

What may in no wise other understand:
What ’tis when all foundation, formerly
Secure, buckles until we cannot stand
Unaided, as had ever planned to be

Dare boldly — by your lifted lamp we see
How beautifully lived a life can be

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This poet is physically disabled. Public housing being insufficient to her medical and creative needs, she is presently living, in order to continue working, in her minivan, publishing all of her works using one thumb on the touch screen of her smartphone, surviving at an income of a fraction of her nation’s poverty level. She would treasure any donation you might care to offer ~ http://www.UgiftABLE.com ● #72D-31S.

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