By Definition, Being Defined

  

The foundation in parables 
Pulling straws the short straw 
Who pulled the shortest of straws 

The making of a man  

Building of a name 
Who knows what tomorrow holds  

 

Which is better   

To be a small fish in a Big tank   

Or to be a Big fish in a small tank?   

Mr Big man   

Throwing dice, for fortune teller's luck   

Tell me what is your number  

To be the part, crown jewel   

Or be counted as party  

To the part by association 


Making up the numbers
In roll call, marking the register 
What is your number, don't say 118 

And size do matter, does matter in efforts    

Like little drops in the part played

Transforming in substance

Elephant running scared of the ant 

Who builds mountains from mud

Who is throwing dice, spiders giving fright 

Was it not just a single man

That threatened to bring down an empire

Oh hail Marcus Aurelius

Shifting the balance of play

Building cities, on deserts

To be called a great marvel    

While legends are built on conquest

With stories that uplift and inspire  

In the making of a name 

Many an empire came to be
Made by men, the commoner with vigour
That few knew before history was made