The Person I Dream to Be đź’–
A poem about inner leadership
Being a leader, being an achiever
A woman who is bold and noble
Someone who inspires creativity
Someone who makes others brave enough
To take off and fly
That is the kind of leader
She has always dreamed of being.
Someone who helps lift people’s conviction
In their own selves
Someone whose joy comes from within
But also grows by sharing it with others
And every so often
Just causing it all by herself.
Someone confident and quietly powerful
A leader with an assurance in her eyes
With a steady step, her head held high
A genuine smile
With a warmth that does not imply weakness
A woman who believes that it is
Kindness that usually asks for the most courage & strength.
A people’s person
A speaker of thoughts
Someone with an ability to bring
Everyone together in the service of goodness
A leader under the limelight, yet
Someone who does not believe
In performing under its glare every moment alone
Someone whom people might love
Yet she remains
Someone wise enough not to hunger for it.
Knowing how to accept rejection
A person who knows the importance
Of her own life’s lamp being lit first
The glow it emanates could perhaps
Fill light in someone else’s hands
But only through their own radiance
Could people start to shimmer just as bright.
It is worth remembering that
A star is alone in the night sky without its mirrors
A constellation cannot be created by a single star
A rainbow cannot complete itself with just one shade
Nor could the monsoon look mesmerising
With a single cool raindrop.
The best hope is then, of course
That there prevails a sense of equality
A loyalty, a warm community
A space that has the maturity to honour everyone’s talents
Without the emotions of inferiority or jealousy.
She knows this truth:
All stars shine even brighter
With the grace of their most radiant friends
This helps her believe that it is right
For her to shine truly just as bright.
She has faith that watching a person
Try to take off and fly
May not bring about anxious inferiority
Instead it could inspire her friends
To brush off their fear & open their wings too.
A person with all these shades in her persona
Someone who leads her own life first
Without trying to impress her will on others
A leader worthy of being chosen
That is the kind of leader
She has always dreamed of becoming.
