Faulkner's Tribute

before you are emptied for sleep,
what are you?

a life's work is in the

agony.

 the sweat of the human spirit;
 not for glory or for profit,
 but to create out of the spirit,
          which is capable of -
                                    compassion
                                                 and sacrifice
                                                            and endurance


        something which did not exist before.