Sometimes You Need Time For Yourself Poem by Ravi Kopra

Sometimes you need time for yourself
to be yourself
to calm your heart, mind, soul
There is beauty but also too much
nonsense in this world
you cannot contain within yourself.
Take time off
Meditate. Reflect on yourself
Look into your soul
and flush off all nonsense -
don't fret if some sense gets flushed off with it -
if you do not want a shrink
who might very well be himself
full of junk and nonsense.
Help yourself first before you help others
you cannot otherwise.
Love grows only if you
grow it first within yourself.
Love thyself first before you love thy neighbor
and not as much as you love thyself.
Don't read Mark twelve: thirty one.
It makes no sense.