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Run Faster, Jump Further (Jesse Owens – Black History Month) [1]
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Date: 2025-02-19
Run Faster, Jump Further
When someone has a talent
and pushes hard to be
the best they can achieve,
you find yourself in awe of those
like Jesse Owens,
who for a week in 1936,
could run faster and jump further
than anyone else.
Every member of our species,
around the world,
desires and deserves the opportunity
to be the champion they can obtain
with their personal abilities,
and that is surely true, too,
for intelligent beings on planets
throughout the galaxy,
no matter what their DNA
has combined them into.
Over the days that Owens won
his four gold Olympic medals,
Jesse also won the hearts
of 110,000 spectators
seated in a German stadium
and the empathetic core
of radio listeners
and newspaper readers
around the world,
and he did these dramatic feats
with no harm to others
except, perhaps,
the delusional vanity
of a madman.
Jesse Owens was a hero for all time
on that Olympic field,
who pushed the envelope
of our humanity,
with character matched to
his physical prowess,
as many more have done since
from year to year,
And we all could do the same,
in our own kind of running
so much faster,
and our own skill of jumping
so much further –
exponentially expanding
our collective value –
if we could only keep open
the chance of choice to be our best
for every one of us.
©2025 Carl Scott Harker
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