Wednesday 26 October 2022

Slaying The Dragon Within Us


Slaying The Dragon Within Us

This is the first Big Ideas Lecture 
I completed, back in 2002
I read a book for 
very young children 
by Jack Kent called 
"There's No Such 
Thing as a Dragon" 
to a group of 
University of Toronto alumni 
(most over 65). 
I explained what it meant
Pay Attention -- or else


Passion...It lies in all of us...
Sleeping... Waiting.

And though 
unwantedunbidden...
It will stir, 
open its jaws...
And Howl…..

It Speaks to us... Guides us.
Passion rules Us all,
and We obey

What other Choice
Do We Have?

It Hurts sometimes more 
than we can bear —

If We could Live 
without Passion,
maybe we'd know some 
kind of peace….

But We Would 
Be Hollow.

Empty rooms...
Shuttered and Dank.

Without Passion,
We'd be Truly Dead.

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