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Who are we to think
That we may make a difference in this world?
Which one of us
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To Those Who Cannot Know by Zach Zahrt
To the spectators standing on the turf, to the friends gazing from behind multicolored flags, and to the parents sitting expectantly in the cool silver bleachers, the race upon which you glare is not what it appears.Even to those competitors of quondam, I expect you have long since forgotten the idiosyncratic experience that is the race, and have therefore lost your proper appreciation for the competition.You see the fluid, undulating movement and rippling of muscles, I have no doubt, but the experience is so much more than the physical stress on human anatomy.It is rather, the truly complex competition of mental discipline.To strive and stride in a race, one must inwardly prepare for the trial to come, psychologically endure and exceed the limits of the human body, and finally, introspectively accept the results of your efforts.
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Who Are We
Who are we to think
That we may make a difference in this world?
Which one of us
has shaped an unmolded mind
or conquered the terrible brutalities of war
or poured their soul into penning a work fit for the ages?
Who amongst our ranks is there
To rival the greatness of those who came before?
I ask you now
Where are the doctors, the teachers, the soldiers
the policemen, the firefighters, the poets, the lovers?
Where are they who will take the place of those names
Emblazoned upon the pages of history?
Who amongst you can say
I am Einstein, I am Locke
I am Hemingway or Thoreau
Can equate themselves with the likes
Of Earhart and Dickinson
Of Tubman or Parks?
When I look upon you my peers
I see none of these names
My eyes fail to find those pillars of days past
Those men and women glorified through time
Yet
What they do glimpse keeps them open
Not only so, but indeed
Their gaze widens
For though your names are different
And your stories lie unwritten
Your feats unsung and your resolve untested
There is something in you I cannot quite place
And what we can't place we had best to describe
Who are we to think we may make a difference in this world I have asked
This is who we are
This is what I see
We are the new, the young, the free
The molten steel waiting to be poured
The innovators of tomorrow's world
The first leaves upon a youthful tree
We are the speakers, the thinkers, and the doers
We will write the books our children read
We will overcome the ignorance, brutality, and strife
All too common in the world of today
And when our time is spent and done
We will have left our mark upon the Earth
So when one day
your children fill the chairs in which you now sit
They may find this world a better place
This is what I see
This is who we are
This
Is you
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