I do not have the courage
to claim with boastful voice
that I am master of my fate
and captain course and choice!
Nor will I heed the challenge
"to rail against the night,
to not go gently toward it
but curse the fading light!"
For I recall another
who meekly bowed His head
and, lamb-like, to the slaughter
permitted He be led!
And no one is a coward
who follows faith's commands
and places life and very soul
in God's almighty hands!
And somewhere waits His Heaven
beyond our tiny sky,
where night's, forever banished,
and only death must die!
~ John C. Bonser
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