The Man Who Changed the World

It all intersects; it's just a matter of perspective.
Typical. Unoriginal.
No doubt. Unless you're in it.
Shaping it.

I could tell you the tale of a man
who changed the world
in only three steps.
Three, what would seem trivial,
circumstances and resolutions.

One. He was disowned. He struggled
with the issue of grudges. Weighed everything.
Weighing mitigates, like it or not.

Two. He had a friend. A selfish person, breaking hearts.
When hers was broken, he fought again
to hold his tongue and hone his heart.

Three. The insurgents were seen as weak
by all the wrong people, or so he suspected.
The hostage was freed and, of course,
he was pleased, but only because a life is a life.
Public Opinion was the bigger picture.
Weighing mitigates, good or bad.

The problem here is that there's no real finale.
I can't tell you answers.
Where I'll leave it
is that these events changed his world.
I know, I know, that's not what I said.
Go ahead. Weigh it.