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All That We Are

April 14, 2023
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by Tod Christensen

Have you ever thought about the difference between live and survive

the emotional difference between existing and feeling alive?

Art and culture through the ages have helped us to evolve

pushing our imaginations and creativity toward puzzles we solve

Great literature has been the cornerstone for all that we’ve become

combined with art and music they are the parts to our sum

Homer introduced us to the legend of Achilles and his heel

A phrase many know but not knowing it was from Homer that we steal

Books and stories and even poems bring us pictures and scenes in our mind

put to bed with these stories or filling up the hours when we feel confined

Transported to a brand new place where we dreamed and wondered

and watched as down into the Valley of Death rode the six hundred

JM Barrie told us about Peter and Wendy and all the lost boys

while Louis Lamour and Zane Gray spun campfire tales of cowboys

John Stienbeck gave us the classic The Grapes of Wrath

and Mark Twain found a way to both teach us a lesson and make us laugh

Books and their authors took us to worlds only they could create and birth

like J.R.R.Tolkein and his Lord of the Rings we could find only in Middle Earth

Harry Potter opened up the world of magic to a brand new generation

when they found the secret entrance hidden between platforms at the train station

And how can we forget the real life lessons that for years we refused to see

like the one we learned in the classic To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Or the much earlier Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

that showed us when it came to treating others we still had so far to go

The stories by Dr. Suess both taught us and made us smile

like when he showed us the places we’d go and how we would enjoy every mile

And there are the darker classics that scared us by Edgar Allen Poe

where we first learned that at night there are some places we truly don’t want to go

So stories come to us in all shapes and forms

teaching us and entertaining us with all kinds of subjects and platforms

Pushing us deep into our minds giving us the courage to travel and go far

teaching us that who we are now is not really all that we are

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