"Who am I? This or the other?
Am I one person today and tomorrow another?
Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others,
And before myself a contemptably woebegone weakling?
Or is something within me still like a beaten army.
Fleeing in disorder from victory already achieved?
Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.
Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am Thine!"
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer**
**Part of a Poem entitled "Who Am I?" Written while he was imprisoned in Tegal. Taken from Bonhoeffer By Eric Metaxes.
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