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Recorded Reading (0:43):

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xim4re81zxsc0eha4fckt/Facing-Down-the-Demons.mp3?rlkey=2r48j10pcusvq44721d5f86d1&st=lqnlxzpt&dl=0

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Facing Down the Demons

The ones who say I’m going to lose
The ones who say I’ll never win
The ones who say if I can choose
I ought not even to begin

The ones who tell me that a rise
I would come swiftly to regret
Here they are — it’s no surprise —
Discouraging as they can get

Whispering that altitude
Is but precursor to a fall:
Let them own my attitude
And I will get nowhere at all

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