A Most Imposing Question

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    A Most Imposing Question

    From The Book Of Norman
    Normanism 101©

    The voice of experience wants to know

    Why some people with so much potential,

    seemed to be perennially stuck in ineptitude,

    or continually mired in the rut of mediocrity?

    When it is in them to achieve true greatness.

    Is it because there's more fear of success

    Than the one that constantly lurks in failure.

    I beseech you O lord, grant me the answer

    To that one most imposing question.

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    Crush commented on A Most Imposing Question

    04-30-2010

    thought provoking and it hits me right in the forehead....sometimes, i am so afraid of failing that i can barely move. great write, nice flow.

    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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