don't

 

Don't finish the story
whatever you do.
Contrived by the writer
it's woven for you.
Don't finish the story
to ease your mind falsely.

Why climb to the top
when the way up is best?
Leave all the point-scoring
to the ego-poor rest.
There is beauty here richly
which others treat lightly.

Please don't miss the process,
don't run and don't strive.
Your mind's not a railroad,
your mind is alive,
and loves to love beauty,
and loves to love slowly.

 

(© 1996-2008 Maria L. Grist)

 

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