Reality Check

Would I move mountains
if I could,

build empires
on the rock on which I stood

defy the pull of gravity
as men of iron - heros - would?

Not I.
Not this weak man,

bereft of strength
enough to say I can

and having said so
complete what I began.


Is that my curse?
To know that once

I could;
to know that once

I would;
to know that once

I should have been
like any man

who says I can
and acts as his words mean.
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