Are you a hero
if the medal 'round your neck is cold?
Are you a hero
if you are doing what you’re told?
What defines your greatness
is not in someone else’s book.
If you mold yourself to be
the hero in an external story
the glory will be temporaryꟷ
and you will fall trying to fit
with the others in the snake pit.
by Kayla Henry
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