Weightiness

Do you accomplish your dreams when you be
come what you wanted to be? Or does it
still matter to do what your being requires?
Is the astronaut who makes it to space
still a success, when he never makes it
back to the ground? Or what about the ones who
never make it into the stratosphere?
Somewhere between the starting line and goal
You become a runner but do you become
a marathoner by competing or
only in completing?

Poetry Scales 186