Be The Garden Not The Gardener Poem by RIC BASTASA

the thoughts growing in your mind
are thorns

you are the one growing them in your mind
let no thought grow there

let yourself be not the grower of these thoughts they are the thorns
let your mind be just the garden

let Him spread the seeds and let these seeds grow like
some clouds seeded in the skies

let Him grow the thoughts in you
you see them
they are the red roses
because you are the garden


you are not the gardener
you have never been and you are never the good one