They tell us "the stars are within our reach"
"The sky is your limit", they continue to preach
But nobody reminds us of the distance we drop
when we fail to reach the heights or when we eventually flop
So we leap up towards the sky with all optimism and hope
forgetting a fact of reality that a leap is only temporary
that our flight towards greatness is only momentary.
They tell us to strive for perfection
But they also say that God alone owns perfection
"How can we compete with that?" we ask
We have been charged with an impossible divine task
Who am I? Who are we? to even dream of such a feat
For God, watching us trying to emulate Him must be a real treat
amused at how we keep forgetting that we are but clay,
fragile, vulnerable and frail.
Fortunately, there are those who defy the odds
Among men, they stand tall and proud as gods
They teach us that fear is a choice, it is just an option
We can choose to be fearful of our fragile nature
Or we can choose to put our faith in a new conviction
that we are created in God's image; This alone is enough nurture
to free us from our hesitation and inhibition
to give us the push we need to make that Godlike leap
even for just a moment, the world gets to have a privileged peep
at greatness, at perfection, at us growing into our divine self
For the leap, the effort, is perfection in itself.
