Advice for Living
Do life the way a worker honeybee
Approaches living, but without the fault
Of filling life without wild liberty.
Stretch up. Attend to life as if pole vault
Maneuvers at their height were done without
The flexing strength that brought you to your fling
Across the bar, as if your will was stout
Enough to win without the pole and swing
To victory with freedom. Do it like
The well-honed knight deploys his charging lance
And brings to death a foe with bloody spike
While free, the tournament a light-hoofed prance.
Force focus clearly. Choose your view. Do all
With sharp abandon, nothing loose or small.
~ Phillip Whidden