"Out There"

Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone

Gazing at the people down below me

All my life I've watched them as I hide up here alone

Hungry for the histories they've shown me

All my life I've memorized their faces

Knowing them as they will never know me

All my life I've wondered how it feels to pass a day

Not above them...

But part of them...

And out there,

Living in the sun

Give me one day out there

All I ask is one,

To hold forever

Out there,

Where they all live unaware

What I'd give...

What I'd dare...

Just to live

One day out there!

Just one day

And then I swear

I'll be content

With my share

Won't resent

Won't despair

Old and bent

I won't care

I'll have spent

One day out there!

Today's message: Help me give them one day out there. Help me bring them down from their belltower to dance and play and dream with the rest of us fools. Help me help the Starlight Starbright foundation. We've come so far - let's go further.

Running: abbreviated today 15 minutes (.750 miles) - full 20 tomorrow.

Contest: Annie Tennis -2; Everyone else - nada. Try this one on for size!

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