Sh-h-h-h! During these hours before a new year raises its head,an awareness of our humility in the face of eternity speaks freely about our existence.
Humility sees fit to drive my life forces these days. Not the humility of having done something so terribly wrong, you should know. No, it is the humility of knowing that whatever I do good is a product of my relationship with the One G-d. It is good to realize that I am who I am because He is who He is. His influence on my every thought, feeling, and sentiment provides the reason to proceed, to remember the past, to take risks, to believe in the present and hope for the future.
I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260)
Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
Poetry used by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Ralph W. Franklin ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright ? 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright ? 1951, 1955, 1979 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260)
Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
Poetry used by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Ralph W. Franklin ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright ? 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright ? 1951, 1955, 1979 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.