Touched By An Angel
Maya Angelou
We, accustomed to courage
Exiles from delight
Live coiled in shells of loneliness
Until live leaves its high holy temple
And comes into our sight
To liberate us into life.
Love arrives
And in its train come ecstacies
Old memories of pleasure
Ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
Love strikes away the chains of fear
From our souls.
We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
We dare be brave
And suddenly we see
That love costs all we are
And will ever be.
Yet it is only love
Which sets us free.
Angelou, M. The Complete Collected Poems Of Maya Angelou. Random House, 1994.
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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, then you have chosen the side of the oppressor,”
— Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
“A winner is a dreamer who never gives up,”
—Nelson Mandela
“When someone shows you who they are,
believe them the first time,”
— Maya Angelou
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