stay in your heart

                                                                       still

                                                                       as Life's busybodies

                                                                       swirl

                                                                       and you upon her ventures

                                                                       dance

                                                                       a bell sings through the 

                                                                       night

                                                                       its Voice, luminously soft

                                                                       swings

   awakening you to

                                                                       trek

Gonna Be Famous* 

Yeah, gonna be famous to myself
when I'm no one else's famous.
Gonna shout it out all over the ball-court
above the gin-joint gathering of drunks
over ev'ry foot-falling spot of earth.

I'm gonna be famous to myself.
Been a-long time gettin' there
long as the moment I thought it would be good
good for me and good for you
even if you doubt.

Yeah, I'm gonna be famous to myself
like all those other famous-made famous by some else.
I don't know nor can I care about.

Don't matter. No! Cause it's true as I'm me.
I take famous to myself cause it's true of me.
I'm gonna be famous to myself, you'll see.
I'm gonna be famous to me.

*inspired by words of MR as a child



*... to sentimentalize something is to look only at the emotion in it and at the emotion it stirs in us rather than at the reality of it, which we are always tempted not to look at because reality, truth, silence are all what we are not much good at and avoid when we can.  To sentimentalize something is to savor rather than to suffer the sadness of it, is to sigh over the prettiness of it rather than to tremble at the beauty of it, which may make fearsome demands of us or pose fearsome threats. ...as Christians in general we are particularly given to sentimentalizing our faith as much of Christian art and Christian preaching bear witness - the sermon as tearjerker, the Gospel as an urn of long-stemmed roses and baby's breath to brighten up the front of the church, Jesus as Gregory Peck.

-Frederick Buechner