Be Brilliant !

Do not accept mediocrity

It is so easily available

And seductively offered

You have a chance to be brilliant

For yourself

Be Brilliant!

Shine like no other!

This is your chance

Your place

Your time to flame

You have been judged as

Too slow

Too foolish

Capable of at least 200 more points on your SAT's

You have been instructed with backward kindness

To stay inside the lines

To wait for your turn

To be a good child

You have been served the mush of the middling, and told

To eat it

To enjoy it

To live and become it

Now be brilliant

Illuminate yourself

Enjoy your light

It is for you and no one else

But brilliance is made of small things

Of no consequence

To anyone

But you…..

With each new thing,

You will sweat on it

You will swear at it

You will wish it was never born

But when you finish…ahh… when you are truly done

This beautiful mess

This wondrous junk

Will testify to your genius

Be Brilliant! ….and enjoy it.