If you can, hold your head when all around you,
Are giving up, losing theirs and blaming it on you,
Unless you trust yourself, when humans start doubting,
But, give allocations to their doubting too.

If you can chatter to crowds of darkness, your failure,
And continue to walk by side, without giving up
Neither foes nor loving pals can hurt you more,
May all stand beside, but none in count, none in much.

If you can give sixty seconds of unforgiving,
No more to sacrifice, free to breathe, to unfold the arms,
Then can be the light, the life, better than you're living in
Be uneven, unloved enough, to risk your beginnings.

Head denies? Listen to heart,
And soul survives, that's the salient part.

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