What if
locked inside of me
there is an individual
so brilliantly creative,
so astonishingly original,
that, if liberated,
he would revolutionize
    medicine or literature or technology
    or psychology or peace-making or religion?

What if fear has kept him hidden
all these decades?

What if his time is up?

And what if this potential
has been given
to every one of us?

What if
these inner geniuses
had been freed
generations ago?

We would already be living
in the kingdom come.

Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.