Potential

I am Potential. I am the heart-pounding personification of what could be. I am a fire-breathing dragon of powerful ideas; dreams and reality greet one another at the doorstep of my heart. I live within the body of a young girl named L. L doesn’t always acknowledge me, but I know when she knows I am here. I think she feels me when she’s drawing; I am the steadiness in her pencil-grip. The motion of her lines is stroked with me, and the colors of her clouds – so soft and purple and blue – I know she sees me there. L can hear me in the rushing of the water as her arms find the energy to break - alternating - the surface of the pool during a swim meet. She may come in 3rd place, but I am there to calm her mind and whisper in her ear, “You finished, you finished, good job”. But the time she notices me the most, when I manifest and I take my true form, that is when she is writing. When she is writing, L can be anyone she dreams of being. She can meet any person in the world, understand them no matter what language they speak, and together their adventures reach the farthest ends of the universe. When L writes, I am the capitalized letter in her thesis and the punctuation in her conclusion. The enthusiasm she generates is so electric that I am caught on a spark and sent flying through her fingertips. The release transforms me. I am no longer Potential, now I am Success, and I am set free.