to what's most difficult. I know that it's
the more, and the faster—I'll grow to deserve my future
practice for love.
In order not just to better serve, but to better
In order not just to better serve, but to better
save the whole world! from its own
prejudice—that of so many
self-similar seeming situations repeating—I guess I'll keep
ceaseless protecting in myself
the desire for solitude.
Against the tyranny of crowds, I suppose I'll work
Against the tyranny of crowds, I suppose I'll work
tirelessly, to actually keep that feeling
of intense loneliness—
that hard little calcified cave which surrounds me—
always fortified, guarded, dark; but
also sung, personal,
safe and warm, and very neatly carved-out—
a private place in which to be alone
and remain so-
interred forever. Yes. For I know (I know, I know, I know):
the more patient and slower I am willing to be, here
in this selfish endeavor,
the more, and the faster—I'll grow to deserve my future
among others, and
with her.