to Write

is to show the world who you are

to be unafraid of the hurt that comes

with affixing your Soul to paper.

to Dream

is to dare to touch forbidden fruit

to stretch your mind until it aches

with the strain of holding something Larger than itself.

to Wish

is to acknowledge your imperfection

to gasp at the could-bes, might-bes,

and wonder if they Will be.

but to Do!

to Do

is to make your mark on the world

to change something in some small way

so that, when death comes

the world mourns and Remembers.

But then again:

Is not Writing a form of Perfection that must escape the frailties of humanity?

Is not Dreaming the way of seeing what the Future must hold?

Is not Wishing the first step of Changing?

And are not all of these part of Doing?

Fear not, ye mortals

immortality is not out of reach

for who can say they have looked at a sky studded with stars

and not come away Unchanged?