A mind that found itself; an autobiography by Beers Clifford Whittingham 1876-1943

Author:Beers, Clifford Whittingham, 1876-1943
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mentally ill, Mentally ill, Mental health
Publisher: New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and Co.
Published: 1921-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

of feeling and energy. But I had also another way of reducing my creative pressure. Occasionally, from sheer excess of emotion, I would burst into verse, of a quality not to be doubted. Of that quality the reader shall judge, for I am going to quote a "creation" written under circumstances which, to say the least, were adverse. Before writing these lines I had never attempted verse in my life—barring intentionally inane doggerel. And, as I now judge these lines, it is probably true that even yet I have never written a poem. Nevertheless, my involuntary, almost automatic outburst is at least suggestive of the fervor that was in me. These fourteen lines were written within thirty minutes of the time I first conceived the idea; and I present them substantially as they first took form. From a psychological standpoint at least, I am told, they are not without interest.

LIGHT

Man's darkest hour is the hour before he's born,

Another is the hour just before the Dawn;

From Darkness unto Life and Light he leaps,

To Life but once,—to Light as oft as God wills he should.

'Tis God's own secret, why

Some live long, and others early die;

For Life depends on Light, and Light on God,

Who hath given to Man the perfect knowledge

That Grim Despair and Sorrow end in Light

And Life everlasting, in realms

Where darkest Darkness becomes Light;

But not the Light Man knows,

Which only is Light

Because God told Man so.

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