Day 268: Spark

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i was once told that our true calling
is found
when we take our greatest talent
and employ it
to serve the world’s greatest need.

i would add
that at the heart of all this,
is love
and conception.

talents are not always chosen
and always need maturation to be fruitful,
but they are readily ignited
if they can only find the spark.

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love, unconsumed,
like talent, untested,
is a painted china plate,
displayed
and over-rested.

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did you know that when the sperm
makes contact with the egg
a FLASH happens
at the exact moment of inception?

it has to do with zinc,
i think.

it’s like these two,
separate,
powerless things
collide
and create a fluorescent
burst
of creation,

and a third,
more robust thing,
becomes.

the two,
as long as they remained
singular bodies
were only that,
short-lived
and striving,
but once combined,
were consumed
and multiplied upon themselves
in endless and prolific
abundance.

i think our individual talents
and our collective needs
resemble that union, too.

and that love –

of one’s own gifts
of one’s neighbor

– is the only thing
that can bring them
together

and thus,

make us all

anew.

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