The 'Talent' Gene

It is the most selfish gene The one that make us distinguishable Our uniqueness and special abilities We owe it all to its infinite mutations It is the most abundant and the most taken for granted, Paradoxically, it can be illusive even to those who possess it Untapped, it is simply wasted It is what hurts the most when we lose, When we fail to achieve what we know we are capable of The inadequacy The rejection Inversely, it is what kicks the hardest And pushes for glory When we allow it to possess us We can only achieve greatness It is the passion that we feel when a song sings to our heart When words speak to our souls and move us like nothing else It is more than just luck that we have it at all Because it calls for us to be more than what we are It instils in us a sense of duty and is the most akin to our purpose in life It is not accidental that we have it And feel unfulfilled when we do not use it All our lives The talent gene, exists for only one purpose, To be expressed To be used, fully To be exhausted until it bleeds success It is the most effective in our lives as a verb It must constantly be on the move, doing something It surrounds the bearer with flair It honours those who sacrifice for this uniqueness, With riches and fame, Their families with pride and honour The talent gene took a flame inside a cave and turned into nuclear energy; It took the superstition of a lightning bolt and captured it in a light switch; It turned the bush telegraph into the information superhighway Imagine what it can do for you fortunate enough to own it; Know what it is and use it It expresses itself in us through innovation and invention With abilities far larger than was otherwise humanly possible It is a cancer that never stops growing within the host The only cure is to embrace it and show it It is a virus that seeks success at all cost It is the competitiveness in us The drive that never loses its novelty It is perhaps the greatest tragedy in humanity That, that which makes us, us the most Shames us the most It’s taboo to be you, to standout To be different Talent is unquantifiable and undeniable It is mother nature’s love ingrained in our souls Her responsibility placed in our hands Her answer to a planet filled with such abundance, Limitless natural resources for one to be anything you want to be A life evolving without a specific direction or destination Our challenge is to recognise this and give it one