Choose  the courage of the human heart

This life is just a film where we play parts
If you take a trip or bad luck hits
Choose  the courage of the  human heart

Love’s the root of all the good that starts
But  power will hide in love until it’s hot
This life  might be a film where we play parts

Love and power are sometimes both inert
Yet from real love, the human is begot
With  what damage to the  human heart?

In error then we falsely do deport
The souls  whose ignorance is  a woeful threat
This life  might be a film where we learn art

In Stalin’s time,  the people wrote reports,
Were spies in networks friendship made unthought
With death to  courage  and the  human heart

Of the love of mothers, we forget
Before we spoke she was the  heart we met
This life is  a  great play with many parts
To enhance the courage  of our shuddering hearts