On the Improbability of Wisdom

This is inspired by and dedicated to Ilia Malinin, who found the possible in impossible, carrying himself with his dreams

 

True wisdom comes from knowing we

know

nothing.

True wisdom comes from having fear

of 

God.

True wisdom is what we get when we

accept the things we will not-

can not-

understand and

keep trying to understand;

when we find that the only probability is

improbability, and

when we know something is impossible and

try find the possible in it;

When we pick ourselves up with

scars the pattern of our veins, scars

we'll never have fade because certainty

is found in uncertainty, what

we find when we reach our calloused hands up

to the sky and

pull ourselves up with our dreams;

when we know we are a nothing

with a name and a certain something

within us, and

let that something overcome that

nothing:

when we take the can not and

make it will not and

wrap our nothing around it until 

can is

all that's left.

maelynslavik

VT

15 years old

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