The Hero

Not anymore. Not anymore?

Are we talking about the one who was both literary and military, capable of lifting something some one thousand jin heavy, riding his horse and rushing into the enemy position alone, killing hundreds of them, taking one city after another, until the whole country fell into his hands, and writing hundreds of poems while drinking heavily, or dashing off an article of thousands of words by the side of his horse, or writing one poem that lasted him a lifetime and deathtime?

Or are we talking about the one who jumped into the water to save a suicide, or the one who tried to rescue someone from the biting mouth of a shark, or the one who supported a suffering nation from very, very far away?

Or are we talking about the one who persists in his calling, right to the end of his life, until he is no longer popular, when he decides to only write and not publish, the way he decides to only breathe and not publish his breaths?