To Seize Being Human

To dive into the ocean

and teach yourself to swim

knowing you were not made

with gills or scales or fins.

To fly above horizons

farther than eyes can see

with wings molded of metal

an eagle’s kind of free.

To be barren of claws

or teeth worthy of hunting

and yet become a predator

that sends a lion running.

To find a place once hostile

with wind and rain and snow

but create a sanctuary

in which to live and grow.

To see a mountain reaching

forever to the sky

and decide to climb it

if just to be that high.