“Who won the Battle of the Imagination?

…
Take all the problems in the world.
Solve.”
-Taylor Mali

Who DID win the Battle of Imagination?
Who reigned victorious in the atrocious War of the Mind?
Who dominated the playing field in the Democratic Election of the Inner Voice?

Perhaps the dramatic flick of the artist’s brush,
showering the canvas with hues of every color, won the Battle.
Perhaps the soothing shuffle of the turning page,
bombastic among the silence of the library, triggered the triumph of the War of the Mind.
Perhaps the powerful chirp of a cricket,
whose conscience echoes through the night, voted the Inner Voice into power.

Everyone is complex and ever-changing
when it comes down to these complicated, yet simplifiable aspects.

Why?

Would it not be easier to conform to
the rigorously rigid requirements that so many take with stiff, unliving open arms?
What do we need of fresh innovations and concepts?
New thoughts that would invade our minds.

Why not stop here?
Be done.
Finished.

I ponder this quite frequently.

I can lay sprawled in bed and carry the weight of
whomever won the Battle, the War, and the Election...
all at once.