Talent

Dachel FohneNovember 14, 2019EducationPoetry

Go.

Do what you are best at.

Do not eat what you are blindfoldedly fed.

Stand on your talent,
not what you were told.

Standing on the ground you know is solid is the only way to get used to your legs,
which you were meant to use.

Standing on the ground you know is not solid is the only way to never get used to your legs,
which you were still meant to use.

Never let anyone place you on unstable ground,
never let them be the reason you fall into a sinkhole.

No law shall ever force anyone to unnecessaily do what they dread.

A talent is unique to a being.

No animal hunts with the same proficiency.

No human learns with the same proficiency.

All animals hunt for what benefits their personal wellbeing.

All humans learn for what benefits their personal wellbeing.

The way all talentful energy flows is unique,
unlike anything ever to be encountered again.

Why would one cause a waste of talent by forcing the beholder of the talent to do anything else?

Just as criminal as torture is it to waste one’s time and rust one’s talent.

Energy never fails to flow,
and it will flow however it wants to.

Forcing energy to flow in a way it does not want to only does harm.

The root of all imbalance is wrongful pressure,
instead of rightful flow.

Dachel Fohne is a 10th grader from San Diego, California. She is an avid mountaineer with a passion for writing. Her writing focuses on peace through philosophy and sociology.