Genius - Writers Block Poetry Contest Week 4

Respond in a poem to the following quote:

Genius is the activity which repairs the decays of things, whether wholly or partly of a material and finite kind. Nature through all her kingdoms, insures herself. Nobody cares for planting the poor fungus: so she shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores, any one of which, being preserved, transmits new billions of spores to-morrow or next day.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius

a thousand opportunities
a million possibilities
a billion chances
insured success
quantity of moments
when the probability
of fortune
increased by
how many hours she spent
bent to the design
back arched
beneath the weight
of the world
she never knew
if she was the one
that made it

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