Greatness

A defining mark of great individuals is that they are in themselves a force and a time. A force because their actions oscillate through their own environment and the environment of those proximal to them; a time because their force imprints on reality for an enduring period. But greatness is not exclusive to those who history remembers. Each person, known and unknown, has greatness in them, for they too are a force and a time. In their own lives they are capable of sending ripples through their microcosm and leaving upon their personal histories a mark of significance. It is only a question of whether this greatness is harnessed.

Dragon

A decade of abuse and terror enslaved her.
She was locked in a cage both in her mind
and in her life. Afraid of the night and sleep
because he came when the lights went out.
Disgust, shame and fear tore at this innocent.

Until that day when the Dragon in her awoke
and those reptilian wings tattooed on her back
became real, bursting through from flesh, bone
and blood. From then on the darkness was no
longer her warden: fire had become her breath
and fire burnt to cinders the pain and the fear.

Ex Tempore LXXI
M.M. — 08-Dec-2013