The Interview of my Life

Staring back at me as though through a magnifying glass is my potential,

Engraved in the cracks of past experiments

Are the cracks that speak at me as though a mirrored reflection of fear

Fear of who I am, Fear of what I could be

Be the powerful human I am inclined to be

As though the inclination will shift my balance

And throw me off the path I am intended to walk, speak, be

No! This is the interview of my life I silently chant, this is it!

Sitting at the one end of the table,

Fingers laced as though trying to lace together every thought

Of fear, tucked behind my ear are the masks and masks of uncertainty

I cleared my throat and was ready for the interview of my life

And so the woman who rode the tides and waves of success

Sat across me ready to decipher the hieroglyphs of my life,

of my brain, of my.. intelligence.

And so the the interview of my life began after a piercing silence

That felt as though it would tear through the walls of protection I had built

The sequential answers I had prepared

For, everything started to fold and piece itself to this very moment,

The years and year of hard work,

Years and years of sleepless nights,

All tied together to this interview which tied together my destiny,

For its success spoke of my succession of liberty, freedom and  kingdom

This liberty is to be the light that illuminates from the corners within me

Casting away any element of fear

Any shadow of darkness

And any hint of doubt

So  I squared my shoulders, cleared my throat as she asked me to spell the word SUCCESS

My brain started throwing words at me that I couldn't decipher

Words that weren’t sequential, nor credential

For so influential was my response that it terrified every pore within me,

Only this fear reminded me of a time in 6^th grade.

As it took me straight back to the spelling where I was asked,

“Spell success”

S U C C E S S

Success, NOUN

A favourable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavours,

The accomplishment of one’s goals and ambitions

Origin- Latin successus

Equivalent to succeed

Stems from Succeeder

Synonyms – achievements, fame, triumph

Success 

Slaved after yet never retrieved

Achieved yet never grieved

Believed yet never conceived

Sought yet never retrieved

Success is not to be defined by you, me, we

For our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,

Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure

For our abilities are far greater then we can fathom

What our imagination can conjure is but a drop in the Atlantic

As oceans will part 

And mountains will move

If we harness the greatness that is you, me, we

For the human ability is far greater and wiser the

Me, I, you can fathom.

That is my definition of success.