the power of one's own "take"
as a teacher I savor a particular time in development,
that time when I witness a young person break through
and coalesce ability and assertion of will into idea, into thesis,
into crafting a lens through which
they can assert their take on it all,
the very opposite of a parrot mimicking another,
all around us are voices shouting to follow them,
that they are oracles from a truer world,
each of those voices seeks to deny
that truth can be continually revealed,
and that each of us has the charge to notice and speak,
the charge to hear others' take,
deny the chaff and appreciate the kernels,
each person who comes into their power
trusts to risk creation within one's self
and then to see what can hide in shadows,
that truth which the light aches to show us
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