"Truth has rushed to meet you since you called upon it.
If you knew Who walks beside you
on the way that you have chosen,
fear would be impossible.
You do not know because the
journey into darkness has been long and cruel,
and you have gone deep into it.
A little flicker of your eyelids, closed so long,
has not yet been sufficient to give you
confidence in yourself, so long despised.
You go toward love still hating it,
and terribly afraid of its judgment upon you.
And you do not realize that you are not afraid of love,
but only of what you have made of it.
You are advancing to love's meaning,
and away from all illusions
in which you have surrounded it.