note to self

girl

what can i do

to be great

should I alleviate

world

poverty

and save all the orphans

what would my title be

long live the queen

who sacrificed every moment

in her life

to do more

for someone other

then herself

could I walk the longest mile

with the most situations

and pains

and quarrels

and equations

to solve

only to reach the end

and discover

that was too easy for me

that would surely make me great

or

it might make me human

discovering

that my imagination

could never be enough for my possibilities

that my mind could not wrap itself around

everything that would ever

and could ever happen to me

discovering

that my heart could be broken

1,000 times

and still

I could love 10,000 times harder than

anyone who never had a broken heart

and always had the greatest love that

life could ever behold…

supposedly…

comparatively

what can I do to be great

should I sever that part

of myself

to find what’s valuable in me

that part that limits me

or should I be grateful for fear

sometimes

protecting me

from the limit

I guess the only way to know this

is to die many times

and live again

because

we go to our limit only at death

but still

we come back again

to do it even better

I say

go to your limit everyday

because surely

you will survive your limited imagination

enough times

to keep you alive

a few more times

than if you were not great

at all

being great is trying

the good things

that no one else would

I dare you

to be great

and not allow

the voices

to win