A Brave and Startling Truth…

Happy Valentine’s Day! Love to everyone (and to myself)!  And remember to give love to yourselves as well as to those whom you love!

A Brave and Startling Truth

by Maya Angelou

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight

live coiled in shells of loneliness

until love leaves its high holy temple

and comes into our sight

to liberate us into life.

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

Love costs all we are and will ever be.

Yet it is only love which sets us free.

A Brave and Startling Truth.

When we come to it

We, this people, on this wayward, floating body

Created on this earth, of this earth

Have the power to fashion for the earth

A climate where every man and every woman

Can live free without sanctimonious piety

And without crippling fear

When we come to it

We must confess that we are the possible

We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world

That is when, and only when

We come to it.


Until next time!

Best,

D.

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