Swifter Higher Stronger...

Mr. Temme's best known verse, Swifter Higher Stronger, a verse often thought to have been written hundreds of years past by an unknown writer in actuality was written by Mr. Temme, first appearing in 1984... SWIFTER HIGHER STRONGER: I have endured yesterday, and am standing tall today, because I have not permitted myself to worry about tomorrow. My life, sometimes a battlefield strewn with the wrecks of dead dreams, and shattered illusions. But some of those dreams and illusions, I have caught from the sky and made into reality, even though they were only but a few. And when those few captured dreams and illusions became reality, I felt as if I had been instantly lifted out of the darkness of a dungeon, and into the light of the sun... I have also known happiness and love. I have reached out and did my best to love and touch all people; thus I have felt the power of God, as I have never felt it before. Try to touch life at every point, to become swifter, higher, stronger. Thus when death comes upon you, like the ancients, you can surely say "I have lived"... copyright/1983 by Dorrance Contemporary Series (Dorrance Anthology 1984) by Mark E. Temme