Rise Above

AS WE RISE TO MEET THE DAY, we once again pledge to become more fit for the future, to take a standpoint that leads to resolution, staying clear of the road to desperation. Doing so is poetry in motion. The poet is the person in whom powers are in balance, the man without impediment, Emerson wrote, who sees and handles that which others dream of, and traverses the whole scale of experience. Hence, when we live and lead mythopoetically, we are the pulse; conscious creators where others stand perplexed, blindsided. We act with a true sense of immediacy while others exercise in futility, too numb to feel the sun. Not wallowing in nostalgia, we engage in evolutionary change, knowing that many are called but few will ever be chosen.