The Royal Servant Inside You

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Lift up your mind.  Lift up its present, past—

And springtime promises, the future.  Flowers

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Within your mind contain a power too vast

To be defeated.  Mountains have their powers.

Unlike one little lily they endure.

They last and last.  Yet even they will die.

Your present mind will die.  But use its pure

And sovereign majesty to help you spy

A way to use your destiny to scrape

The cosmos with your strength.  Light up a flame,

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Whatever tiny lamp, to find the shape

You want.  Defy mere fate and make it tame.

  An Everest will arise in you.  Its rock

    Is you.  Your soul will serve to fight off shock.

~ Phillip Whidden

   This photograph is from p. 93 of R. H. Blyth’s volume one of Haiku:  Eastern Culture.