"Be like the birds," they said, "be the leader"

They fly in patterns where one leads and the others follow

"Be like the leader of the birds," they said

But we are not birds

We're people

We walk on the ground

And although we can walk on ground in the sky,

We cannot walk in the sky

We don't walk in patterns, much less think in them

There is not one leader

There are imaginatists and problem solvers and creators and discoveratists 

We work together and we work alone

Don't tell us we are birds

We're humans

We don't lead in a flying formation,

But we have more power than you know