DARE TO DIFFER

I see there a large gathering

People with varying goals, and different souls

Yet they all stand together side by side

Not in an unshakable feeling of unity

But out of the fear of embracing their own selves

And now they must stand hand in hand

because it is the only way they know how

But I walk past them on my own road 

Showing no regard to their established paradigm

I was an outlaw to their law of the land

For when they lost hope, I dared to believe

For when they fell, I dared to rise

For when they fed me ideas, I dared to form mine

For when their ears could not grasp the music, I dared to dance

People restricted to thinking what they should, not what they want

And there existed not an agent of change

As they were transformed into puppets of the paradigm

I felt I now had a greater purpose to serve, for

It is when someone dares to differ,

That they dare to believe, and it is only then

That they dare to change, finally causing

Humanity to propel ahead with meaningful progress, with

Gaping mouths and applauding hands, and now they realize

That they need us, yet they fear us, for they cannot be us

And us is the might to dare.