[…] I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside, and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I’d like to be and I could be…if only there were no other people in the world. (8/1/1944.6)
I am a young girl still, yet no age at all,
and I have learned some things.
I know now I have always been free
to be all I can be,
to soar with the birds of the aoul
even as we hid ourselves away
and hardly dared to play,
tiptoeing around
for fear of being heard downstairs.
I see now that all I've lived
has been part of me.
and I know, beyond doubt
there are no "other people" in the world
or anywhere,
for my heart is still turned inside out
and I see them there,
sharing, living, loving, free,
my heart, my part,
dancing here upstairs with me.
