Why should you care what others
think about you if you know
the pure core of you
without pretense nor defense
of your high value
that others may misconstrue.
Be confident and brilliant
in your life’s ascent
to the highest and strongest
your pure core displays.
[Grace]
So, you play poker to hone
your skill to deceive and sit
upon The Queen’s throne
of the world’s supreme swindler.
Your pride groans beneath
the heavy weight of the coins
joined to guide the tide you ride
as you journey through
the rise and fall of your lies
that define your soul.
[Shey]
You’re an unsympathetic,
hard-nosed critic of values,
you seem to have set
in stone, deeply carved, clearly,
without much regret,
to beam the righteous bright light
on sinners and on angels.
You fail to yield to
the field of worldly science.
Laws of motion speak
to energy’s troughs and peaks
as its waves of transference
flow through tangibles’
interactive performance
of their existence
that is fleeting along the
cosmic scale seeking progress
to harness a gain
in applicable precepts
that architect paths
toward an enlightened habit
of always choosing wisely.
You’ve been studying
martial arts for years dazzling
your peers who cheer your
battles and many conquests
in tournaments upon more
tournaments that test
your courage, skill and resolve
to involve yourself
in challenges that assess
your competence from time spent.
[Grace]
You’re the blame, mother.
Your claim that women are more
powerful than men
based on their ability
to naturally birth life
while males merely
provide seeds cavalierly
that reside inside
our warm moist wombs ready
to exhume the fully formed
humans entombed in
womanly incubators
that comport the warmth,
harmony and all other
indicators for healthy
developmental,
robust growth instrumental
for the survival
of the homo sapien
species whose men then swore to
abhor abduction
of their women and, hence, their
intense protection.
Early on my upbringing
was the singing of high praise
to be raised with strong
self-reliance as my soul’s
core essence forging
strict self-determination
that irks your consternation
at my willfulness.
[Shey]
So, you remember that we
did Tai Chi each day
when you were very small and
not walled off to my best thoughts
of what ought to be
fun for you and me to see
the value gained in
the common adventures shared
by mothers and their daughters
as pretty feathers
to wear in their hats that will
attract the fond gaze
of males to interact with
fine beauties, but I wished to
seize your young heart that
sought to please your loving Mom
to believe in your
core strength that would stabilize
the length of your journey to
be confidently
wise in your self-reliance.
As a consequence
your willfulness boasts both mine
and your pride in the success
we must address toward
your self-determination.
We still do Thai Chi
separately but now you’re
much more internally moved
with personalized
rhythmic flows that show drastic
advances inward
and forward toward your controlled
assertive place in your space.
[Grace]
So, you do approve
of my stubbornness to hold
you accountable?
[Shey]
Stubbornness, no, steadfastness,
when you’re roughly confronted?
Yes, absolutely,
because you’re of age where you
must behave well or
be propelled into heaven
or hell compelled to react
according to the
personnel inhabiting
the field that must yield
harmony or rivalry.
It is easy to see that
you took to Tai Chi
with such enthusiasm
that Jiu-Jitsu wooed
your vision as the item
to seat in tandem with your
chore for more overt
internal harmony freed
openly with ease
and low physical effort.
But, why now learn Karate?
[Grace]
No discomfort plagued
my concern to turn my skills
to learn Jiu-Jitsu
that morphed more into Judo’s
focus to use any foe’s
strength against themselves
by those who would oppose my
harmonious state
to erase my private place
by invading my calm space
from which I relate
to the events of my life
that represents my
true core that I can’t ignore.
For sure, you assured that growth.
Gandhi’s ahimsa
which I perceive denotes more
about reduction
of himsa (to harm) than to
escape any harming acts.