Without Fear

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Without impediment, we say we have not fears

Yet between us lies bare naked time bereft in tears

Of public pleasures, basic measures assumed by all who love

In spite of circumstance we seek the happy mourning dove

The harbinger of freedom from the yoke of prior claims

Without concern for consequence, our passions fan the flames

Oh to declare with clarion calls a love of consternation

Love as true as we have found craves not for affirmation

A long gray horizon breaks only for the light

Driven like a stake upon the edge of my gaze

Without boundaries, seemingly endless is the haze

To that distant harbor, where refuge ends our flight

Unseen, unmarked, unnamed, by Chance, our captain draws the course

Sanguine Expectation steers by the stars these several years

Without a chart she seeks true North, along in Fortune's flowing source

Fate feels the wheel tugged by the keel, making sure the bow will clear

This arbitrary crew, capricious is the lot

Lacking sentimental skills and sense, I know we need them not

So mutiny upon the sea! The wheel is ours to grip

Without our minatory mates, unburdened is our ship.

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