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Keep Reaching
The trick is to keep reaching
for the light you will never touch,
and to be nourished by the stretch
toward impossible things.
The trick is to bloom where you are,
not calling it a failure because
you wanted a different outcome.
Live each day devoted to awe,
so that when a monarch lands
on the tip of a coneflower, seeming
to swell with that sudden infusion
of sweetness, you don't miss it.
So that, while you watch, a pair
of hard-won wings seems to open
and close and open again in you.
James Crews
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