Choose Something Worthwhile

Here's a poem (more a series of aphorisms, really) that is from a collection of mine called INSTRUCTION SONGS, I still think the advice offered is valid, and I suppose one could say this is a part of my artistic credo.

CHOOSE SOMETHING WORTHWHILE (Instruction Song #9)

If in doubt, choose teachings of voyagers, that are neither patriots,
nor servants of any idea or idea of community.

Choose something worthwhile that resonates with the agendas of discoverers,
forever propelling you into the unknown.

Always be suspicious of communities of any kind, especially religious communities,
for it is there that personality rackets are hatched, seductively draped around nothing.

Words are thought dust, clouding tongues and clogging up minds,
they are a fog, shrouding souls in cloaks of wishes.

Neither male nor female, human nor non-human, servant nor lord, pupil nor teacher –
nothing should you be, but a curious mind.

I am nothing but a wandering mind.

© George H.E. Koehler, 1999

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