Dedicated to my dearest friend

and to Peer Counselors

everywhere.

"This Bright Morning Dawn"

By Maya Angelou

Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need

For this bright morning dawning for you.

History, despite its wrenching pain,

cannot be unlived, and if faced

With courage, need not be lived again.

Lift up your eyes upon

this day breaking for you.

Give birth again

To the dream.

Women, children, men,

Take it into the palms of your hands.

Mold it into the shape of your most

Private need. Sculpt it into

The image of your most public self.

Lift up your hearts

Each new hour holds new chances

For new beginnings.

Do not be wedded forever

To fear, yoked eternally

To brutishness.

The horizon leans forward,

Offering you space to place new steps of change.

PsychoDrama 1996

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