Tight eyed tightrope

over the crowd

Don't look now

Don't look down!

Step on the strands

Balance your hands

Don't let your doubt

tell you where this lands

This is the dream

This is the risk

Better believe

It don't get better than this

All eyes aloft

upon your frame

No acrobat lives

without a measure of pain

Each articulate word

and artful step placed

is the heart of the journey

and the art of this grace