42. WHAT AM I TODAY?

I don’t have to go very far
To see the mouth of hell.
  Yesterday I was nothing but that.

I don’t have to go very far
To feel the heart of Heaven.
  Tomorrow I shall be nothing but that.

And what am I today?
    Frustration-killer
        And
    Hope-builder.
Sri Chinmoy, The Golden Boat, Part 20, Vishma Press, New York, 1974