Stanza Saturday // Will You Dare?

People are a little funny. We all have such fabulous potential to do great things...and we all just want to try be like each other.

Who can break the norm, and utilize all your God-given talents for helping one another rather than fading them away to fit in? You can.

Will you dare?

Will You Dare?
Sofia Nikula

what will you tell them
when they ask you
your thoughts
your hopes
your dreams?

the sea of blank faces
will turn at the sound
of the undying question.
some will shrug
and stare in consternation
(and then you can ask them,
where is your passion?)

but you.

you can think as deeply
as the number of breaths
all your ancestors breathed

and hope with vibrant color
igniting the rainbow
in a shower of ideals,
lofty as the heavens.

and you.

you can dream in more than the sky
dreaming with a heart full of the stars
dreaming up new constellations of passion
sparks shooting far
in a sea of grey masks,
beautifully bizarre.

so you,

what will you tell them
when they ask?
will you shrink your features
and dull your colors
and intone with the faces
of the human race
homogenized?

will you show them your colors?
your talents--
will you share?
will you set fire to the stars?

you.

will you dare?