Secrets of the Self – how I became a Warrior by Alysse Aallyn

Creativity –

When I was 11 I saw a 3,000 year old Greek play in a Greek stone theatre and was very taken by all its mechanisms of chorus and emotion. When we went back to the boat I sat down and wrote my own play, Chrysothemis, about Electra’s other sister. I couldn’t help it, I had to reflect that emotion back. It was a hot day and everyone else went swimming, but a Warrior would have finished that play.
I finished the play.

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When the universe calls

You have to answer

Mimicking what you hear

Imitating what you see

Until you’re brave enough to grab

The balls of fire

And juggle them for yourself.

Then you get offered a job

Juggling other people’s fire.

Good work for some but not for warriors

We call those people

Mercenaries.

We need to juggle our own fire

And if you think learning the basics

Was humiliation enough

You won’t survive this.

There’s a lot of stumbling and

Silencing.

I was what’s politely called a

“Late Bloomer.”

But I did finally

Bloom.

And when you’ve created your first

And maybe only

Immortelle

It’s worth everything.