[ NaPo 2021 ] [ Gibran ] What Would Gibran Do?

    
You delight in laying down Laws,    
Yet you delight more in breaking them.    
Like children who play by the ocean building sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter.    
But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore,    
And when you destroy them, the ocean laughs with you.    
Verily the ocean laughs with the innocent.    
    
 ~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet    
     
     
     
This is a child on the beach    
gathering sand in these hands, each    
drawing towards me raw building materials    
to complement the I'm Material    
world I alone create    
     
Some magnets are strong    
but never pique      
unless they have attracted      
too much of what doesn't belong    
     
And for far too long    
I was weak    
     
and for far too long    
I mostly reacted    
     
but now I know    
that there is no    
limit to my reach    
     
I am that child on the beach    
     
gathering sand in these hands, each    
pulling towards myself    
raw building materials    
to complement realities    
I alone create