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Created on: September 08, 2009
Waiting is a boring task. Nothing to do. No one to ask.
Unless we use this time and space to venture into realm and place.
We can be heard. We can excite.
We can be bold, virtuous, and right.
We can escape worry and pain; explore new regions, harvest grain;
recruit an army; kill a dragon; sing a sonnet; load a wagon;
find a cure for earthly ills without the use of shots or pills;
determine distance; plot and aim until we reach our golden claim.
Waiting is no boring task if we do and if we ask.
The inner searching of our soul will master it and give control.
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