Dedicated, with gratitude, to Yana Kane, who inspired this poem
You set off on a difficult journey –
the journey of self-improvement.
You read books and attend lectures.
You meditate and practice.
You work on your self,
but it stubbornly refuses to improve.
It remains self-same,
immutable safe-same,
for if it changed –
how would you feel yourself?
With no you and no self –
tricky!
… but you do,
of course you do,
moment by moment,
experience by experience,
creation by creation,
with or without a journey,
you fashion your self
out of current patterns
and imagine that it was
and that it will be.
You cannot improve
on something that never existed,
but you can always change a story
you just made up.
