Beginning to Be

It is I who must begin...

Once I begin, once I try...

here and now,

right where I am,

not excusing myself

by saying that things

would be easier elsewhere,

without grand speeches and

ostentatious gestures,

but all the more persistently

to live in harmony

with the “voice of Being,” as I

understand it within myself

as soon as I begin that,

to my surprise, that

I am neither the only one

nor the first,

nor the most important one

to have set out

upon that road...

Whether all is really lost

or not depends entirely on

whether or not I am lost.

Vaclav Havel