I am not always correct

never have been

sure as anything won’t be in the future,

so it all depends on which words here

strike an emotion within you enough

to humble your definitions enough

to be open to true change

 

It is said that the Buddha believed that an individual

purge itself of all natural, material and worldly objects,

friends and family and all other ties known,

three times

throughout one life

The purpose, I believe,

is to remind the self, the ego, the desire,

that you all have arrived to a point

where it all matters all too much

and that it really all should not

 

There is a very large chasm between

the truth

and the stark definitions of extremes

we feel we need to believe in,

definitions which often justify the excuses we have…

It is easy to follow a dream

that allows for physical successes

through physical struggles;

We have learned this young, trained to overcome

lines drawn and boundaries set.

 

So, what I do is question you, upset you,

tell you that you are incorrect in your path,

not because I am correct,

but because you feel part of me is,

and you feel that something is not quite right.

What you do not admit

outside of the darkness you confess to in solitude,

is that you do not entirely, wholly,

live by the rules of your own life,

just the ones you are permitted to live by

within the world you have moved into.

 

So, I challenge you,

with this poem,

to live utterly irresponsibly.

 

Enough with the dreams of grandeur and tradition;

No person who ever truly followed their dreams

ever wished for success…

We need not to because

we know we live in the dream,

so there is nothing to want.

 

But,

as I said to begin,

I am not always correct.

 

This is just what I know to be true…

 

 

 

 

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(written with pen on paper)