A Yellow Roman Candle

Thursday, September 4, 2014

A Poem

Part of my job is helping my bosses work on commercials for different companies. One company needed a voiceover for its commercial and my bosses had me write it. After a few hours of serious brainstorming, this is what I came up with, and I’m actually pretty proud of it. It ended up getting cut from the commercial (it didn’t fit with the company’s culture so I’m writing something else) so I figured I’d share it here:

Stand

Bring out the dream within

That has never been silent

And chase it with vigor

Because you are defiant

To complacency.

I still believe in you.

Inside your soul

You behold the will

To reach what is thought to be hopeless

But longed for still.

So stand up! Rise!

The odds are great

And the current tries to pull us

But failure doesn’t intimidate

And the lies never fool us.

In this broken world, stand together.

One heart unbroken,

One dream uncaged,

We march forth, relentless

With the furious rage

Of passion in our blood.

Don’t ask us our age,

It doesn’t matter,

Because we believe.

1 comment:

AnonymousDecember 3, 2014 at 7:42 AM
I'm reading this for the first time today 12/3/14. I don't know how I missed it. I look for your blog often but, unless you mention it on facebook, I might not look once in a while.
BTW: It's a great poem. Glad I read it!

Memaw
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