Fierce

I was reading about John Lennon

Rolling Stone magazine was going to post a forgotten interview they had with him. It was conducted just days before his assassination.

The cover depicts John at 40.

He looked fierce.

He was all about Peace; he said so, he showed us it was his theme.

I've no reservation in believing him; he took too much crap to be anything but the real article; peace loving ~ with dignity.

I wondered if a person could be peace loving and fierce.

Could fury hold peace in it’s heart?

I doubted that.

Then again, isn't nature's way to coddle the fawn?

Then erupt with volcanic lava that burns everything in its downward path?

Spewing ash that suffocates those very vulnerable soft and innocent creatures?

Is the lesson one of inconsistency in life?

Weather would be that unrefined wild fury of an example; brutal perhaps, for any soul longing for predictability in life.

No one would have suspected that John Lennon, of all people, would suffer such a violent end; certainly not John.  He was, after all, a man of peace.

Was his fierce spirit destine to draw contrast?

Then within that conflict be consumed? 

Is the sum from such a struggle for supremacy the lingering remaining dross of mediocrity?

One that shy's from confrontation; doesn't decry; doesn't' resist,

But services in the long run by producing promise in the shape of another generation of idealist? 

They would become the vanguard that concludes safety is not the  goal in living.

Since they had been protected from threat, they possessed courage to try to make things better for everyone?

Whose hero’s happen to be men like John Lennon?

I can only hope so.