Be What You Want To Be?

And While it well maybe
That the future is unwritten,
But it is predicate and aimed
By the past.
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It is so blasé to say:
“You can be anything
That you wish to be“,
When in fact
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You must start from
Where you might find
Yourself to be,
Then you must plot a path,
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From what you are
To what you wish.
There is nothing
Nonchalant about that!
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The present can be seen
As a light
That cast the shadows
Of the past
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Far into the future.
Magnifying and minimizing
Sometimes making
What seems so trivia
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Metamorphose into the linchpin
Of what you find
Yourself to be.
Then again,
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What appeared so important
Can be contorted
As not much more then naught.
So easily to be fooled!
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For sometimes importance
Is perceived,
And triviality
Be just that.
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So easily to drown
In the minutiae
Or to be blinded
By the big picture.
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Which leads me
To this question,
Does the man make the events?
Or do the events make the Man?
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Could Adolf
Be Der Fuhrer
At any other point
In History?
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Or could he have
Gained his power
Without so many others
Aiding and abetting him?
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How can one person
Weave the fabric events
Into any shape
They may wish it to be?
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Rexx