By the grace You grant me
of silence without loneliness,
give me the right to plead,
to clamour
for my brothers and sister
imprisoned in loneliness without silence!
It is worth any sacrifice,
however great or costly,
to see eyes that were listless
light up again,
to see someone smile
who seemed to have forgotten how to smile;
to see trust reborn
in someone
who no longer believe
in anything or Anyone.
--Dom Hélder Câmara, A Thousand Reasons for Living
Image source: Video, Ballerina with Alzheimer’s hears Swan Lake, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT8AdwV0Vkw
Quotation source
No comments:
Post a Comment