The Teacher says
You’ll know when to step up
read the signs.
Doesn’t he know I need to keep hidden?
It’s a habit, invisibility,
a useful one
Except when the call comes
The Teacher says,
Walk through the fear.
I don’t have that skill.
But what if it’s what I’m born to do?
The next thing that
leads to the next, and so on.
Then he says,
Failure is inevitable
Are you beginning to get the picture?
One’s fate isn’t like building a deck
or buying a car.
Specific advice just won’t do.
Lau Tzu, the Tao te Ching guy,
He had the knack.
It is what it is, he might say today.
But it probably isn’t.
the dilemma of uncertainty
David – this is so fantastic!
I love the conversational tone of this poem. It makes the reader feel like they’re listening to a chat that maybe they shouldn’t be listening to, but they’re glad they did. Any talk where Lao Tzu makes an appearance is OK by me.
Good Dave I like the irony.
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