'Even darkness must pass.'

Frodo: I can't do this Sam.

Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to Sam?

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.

Netikėjimas, A. Mackus

A. Mackus

NETIKĖJIMAS

Nebeieškokime -

mes nieko nesurasime:
nei žemės, nei pavasario,
žaliom raidėm užrašomo,

tik vakarą
ir elgetas smuikuojančius
prie katedrų.

Nebeieškokime -

mes nieko nesurasime,
kol patys sau nebūsime
ir žemės, ir pavasariai.

Katedra.

Staiga, stovėdamas centrinėje navoje, suvokiu labai svarbų dalyką: katedra - tai aš, tai kiekvienas iš mūsų. Mes augame, keičiasi mūsų būdas, pamatome savo silpnybes, kurias būtina nugalėti, ne visada pasirenkame geriausią sprendimą, bet vis tiek einame pirmyn stengdamiesi nepalūžti, elgtis teisingai, kad pagerbtume ne tas sienas, ne duris ar vitražus, o ten, viduje, esančią tuščią erdvę, kur garbiname ir dieviname visa, kas mums svarbu ir brangu.