Who Dares - For Contest

Who Dares….. Who dares to open this old and weathered tome seeking knowledge, seeking to determine which road to take, what thoughts to think, what must be done to build upon the yellowed pages of another’s dog eared life. Are you so prematurely defeated that you seek another’s armor, shield, and buckler not your own, weapons discarded by long past warriors? Have the wizards of wisdom tainted all creativity with fear, have the speakers of the truth lied, has all been taken but faint memory of a once held dream? A dream of naked pages and empty books awaiting the touch of new pens, new ideas, new rebellions. A dream of words bathed in the breath of youth crying to be fed, not old and withered fodder but fresh buds in early stage of ideological bloom, words whose meanings have never changed yet will be the words that change ideas, thoughts, dreams, and destiny. Words imbued by a new passion, a new zest, possessed of simplicity and teased by genius, written on the acts of daily life. Who dares to open this old and weathered tome!! Learn, and dare to write your own. 8/8/2013 submitted to – Theme #4 – Poetry contest sponsor – SKAT A