Courage at Three AM : FriesenPress : 9781525510403 : 1525510401 : 17 Aug 2017 : Who among us is ready to face death with eyes and heart completely open? Who among us is ready to account for all that we have said and done, for all our battles lost and won? Who among would have the courage to pause at the very fulcrum of life and death and carefully consider whether it is time to lay down one's shield and fall upon one's sword, or pray for "Galahad's strength of ten" and fight again? In these poems of hope, reflection and spirituality, Richard Sipe endures a dark night of the soul and lingers there, daring darkness to overwhelm him and spare him yet another battle, while trying to believe in one more dawn. "What fool can stand, wrestle the demons from the deep, and hope to live, survive, un-mutilated?" he complains. But the answer is Sipe himself, as he recalls the dream childhood, a dance with the devil and a path to the divine through sensuality and the ceaseless tests of maturity. S