Are You A Flower Or A Sticker? Poem by Chuy Amante

This life is your path
it is your karma.
Do you have wrath?
Have you found the Dharma?

As you live
and life passes you by,
d-you look in the mud
or up at the sky?

Are you a trail thorn
stuck painfully in a foot?
or a fragrant flower in a field?
no need for much root

it is not about
your dim self-perception
it's how other grade you
no contraception

pushy, mouthy, gonna get yours?
getting ahead of others
drilling holes
in their oars?

Much less of YOU,
would bless the world
a soft, kind little you
re-born
a brand new girl!