A Self-Help poem series
The giver receives
The selfish miser is miserable
It’s an easy thing to observe
Sacrifice for others and notice
If this enables you to think
More about the world
And less about yourself?
There are others less fortunate
Than you, the seed cannot
Know what will happen
Without water and sunlight
To focus on the self is to isolate
Oneself from the energy of life
Life is a relationship with itself
There are no actual boundaries
You create them, by distinction
By not sharing your life with others
Self isolation is one of the problems
Of individualistic societies, we pretend
We are strong, but people aren’t
By nature strong, we are tender
We were made for partnership, family
Clan, community, society, cooperatives
Fraternity, exhibition, theater, lovers
Nurturing others enables the energy
To circulate, like blood or light
Do not live a frozen life
Do not waste your time in selfishness
Or attempting to profit
For when we are alone
We are conditioned to think of scarcity
And when we are together we
Happen to muse about plenitude
So what does that mean?
I wish there was a star for very excellent!! O so good!!