Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward

Say to them,

say to the down-keepers,

the sun-slappers,

the self-soilers,

the harmony-hushers,

"even if you are not ready for day

it cannot always be night."

You will be right.
For that is the hard home-run.

Live not for battles won.

Live not for the-end-of-the-song.

Live in the along.

-Gwendolyn Brooks

(she once said, "I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker." Wordemup.)