- gravitas \GRAV-uh-tahs\, noun:
- High seriousness (as in a person's bearing or in the treatment of a subject).
Gravitas
In Three Movements
In memory of Fred Fine
I.
In the immortal mind
of this Worldchanger
bottom line was humanity,
heart.
Breadlines for subsistence
not enough without beauty
riveted into the beams
of our being
offered to all in reach of his
brilliant, encompassing, light
where would-be Worldchangers
were taught to slay
the golem of cyclical crisis.
II.
Firebird soaring underground.
Entrenched scholar on frontlines.
Bronze-Star soldier, profound.
Mobilizer of each one of us.
Gardener of consciousness.
Scientific shaman. Maven.
Mentor to masses. Agitator.
Code Breaker. Mensch.
Papillon.
Frail enough to fly.
III.
Freedom Fighter. Father.
Ideamonger.
Immense enough to leave
an imprint on our communal stone.
Today the theory of chaos is true.
The flutter of a butterfly’s wing
can equal the force of a hurricane.
© 2005, Michael Warr
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