[Originally Published — October 2011]

Expect nothing. Live ready

For the surprise of justice sleeping beneath the rust.

Become a stranger

To the need of guilt.

For success, if freely

Given out is a nail never hammered deeply enough.

Take only enough to absorb it like thin layered cream,

Stop short of the urge to plead for it,

Then purge away the need for it.

Wish for nothing larger

Than your own school of thought.

Run by principals paid by your brain and your heart

Or as isolated as a star;

Tamed by the obscurity of doubt;

The star fizzles out.

When the event horizon sets in

Keep the Light,

It’ll feel like caressing— unmoved and cold

Worn out,

By your unforgetting soul.

Discover the reason why

Such tiny human flaws

Exist at all.

So scared to expect so much from others,

So you expect nothing at all. Yet, live ready to be,

Happily surprised by them all.