What Will You Do? Poem by Atara Gedalowitz

Are you wiser than any man
Or richer than any child?
Can you sing, tie a sling,
Or be calm when all is wild?

If you can, are you proud
Of all that you can do?
After all it's all amazing
And it makes you you

No one can take you down
When you are strong and weak
You alone hold the power
To make yourself feel meek

You are important but stop and think
How did you get that way?
You were born and lived, my mighty friend
And one day you will be slay

What will you have done
With all your talents and gifts?
Will you have brought kindness,
Or wrought humongous rifts?

There is a time, a place, a need
That you are meant to fill
You can choose right, you can go wrong
That's why it's called free will