If you want to tell others what to do

And have them do it,

Then tell them to do what they want,

And tell them to do the best they can,

Because this is what the whole world does.

And somewhere between the tied off ends of those two points,

The arrow fits onto the string,

And in the great release of it all,

Our lives fling out together

To hit or miss the marks we've spied.

And others may have eyed our results,

And judged us to have missed the mark, and sinned,

But at least we tried,

And it may be better to try and fail

In our own dharma,

Than to succeed in something we never wanted,

And be confused by the war inside our karma,

And never to know what could have made the difference.

-jenn