I DON'T BELIEVE THAT ANY HUMAN BEING, INDEED EVEN GIFTED VESSELS THEMSELVES, CAN STOP WHAT GOD HAS ORDAINED. GOD, WHO SEES THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF EVERYTHING, 'NEVER MAKES A MISTAKE'. THE GIFT(SPARK) HE PLACES WITHIN A CHOSEN VESSEL CANNOT BE HELD CAPTIVE...BUT IS BEING USED TO THE CAPACITY THAT 'GOD WOULD HAVE IT USED' AT ALL TIMES. FOR, IN THE END, ALL THE GLORY AND PRAISE SHOULD GO TO GOD AND GOD ALONE...AND NOT THE VESSEL. THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS.

Brilliant, uplifting words, inviting us all to cast out
our fears and become the fantastic, powerful, shining
beings that we were always meant to be…

Diana…🍃

So many, early on by their parents and siblings are told that they are not worth anything that carries through when they get in school, being punished rather than rewarded for trying.



Your poem really describes the masses who want to just get along and go along with what those around them are doing without that spark to go out on their own. A very apt word for your poem title. So descriptive and beautifully rendered.



Ron

Even though you don't emphasize the tool of material ownership as a primary measuring stick for many, your poem is a special encouragement, an enlightenment of the inner self that cries out to brave the torrents of flood waters coming from those whose power and influence are derived from being something other than who they really are, i.e., establishing themselves as others would have them, not how truth comes from the kind of checklist your poem projects, would find that to be themselves might be more complex, but, for the effort, ownership of that which cannot be bought--a theme for a poem working its way out in my mind--contributes to the real authentic person, the truly wealthy one. You've penned a calm and compassionate reminder that all should read repeatedly.

Wonderful poetry about individuality as the spark that make us glow. Your message is true. As my son once said: why should I be anyone else? I'm best at being me!