Talent Helps
All the virtues
To make envious
A world around:
Persistent,
Strong, kind,
Disciplined.
(There virtues stop)
Popular
And very, very,
Very rich.
The glitch
Is talent –
Does he know
He hasn’t got it?
That a scale of one to ten
Shows that he weighs in low,
And cannot fight it?
Does his staying power count?
Should he be out there, a playing clown?
Should he cower while I grunt?
Or does he steal an era
From the standard that he sets,
Send a generation walking
In the wrong direction?
Or, is he its mirror that selection
Just reflects?
Oh, if only he had talent!
© Talent Helps 04.7.13
Our Times, Our Culture; Vaguely About Music;
Arlene Corwin
Arlene Corwin Poetry 