No matter

Where

     you

          land,

Keep current with their currencies.

If they misname their efforts,

Do not remind them.

If they wage, and age,

Help them question otherwise.

Touch their nature in all modalities,

All of their ways of being.

And remember all the while:

Shine, but not too brightly —

They will have fallen there

From lesser heights.

Written June 25, 1987, Memphis