Who do you Think You Are?

 

"Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza."

Dante Alighieri 

Google translation:

Consider your origin:

You were not born to live like brutes,

but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation:

Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang;

Ye were not made to live like unto brutes,

But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.

Canto XXVI, 118 - 120

my response:

Regard your destiny;

You were not created to simply exist,

Oozing through the slime of worldly mediocrity,

But to rise above the inane, and achieve greatness –

Even be it solely in the eyes of those who love you.

Mickey Basden 9/20/13