ihearthespeakers
smashing heads like an all-black
ramming speed like a cruiser
shedding heat like tectonic plates
all thunder could do was bruise her
i read once about a guy who was on a pay phone and it got struck by lightning. he was thrown backwards, went into cardiac arrest, and had an out of body experience. he was brought back by paramedics, and afterwards developed an obsession with classical piano. he started playing, played all the time, quit his job as a orthodontist, got divorced, all just to feed this insatiable urge to compose.
Morals matter. Morals are what define people. What defines morals, however, is much more complicated. So you could say that, if morals define people, then people define morals.
But undoubtedly it is those morals that make us who we are.