by J. Harmon Grahn
Do what you did:
Get what you got.
That's how things work,
If you like it or not.
If you want something new,
That never has been,
Then there's something to do
That you've never done,
If the treasure you seek
Is to ever be won.You do what you do
Because of your thought,
And you think what you think
Because you've been taught.
You learn as you grow
What others have thought,
And how you should feel
As others have felt,
And who you should love,
And who you should hate,
And so you've been served
What you find on your plate.If you'd like a new menu
Of alternative choices,
Then seek a new venue
Where alternative voices
Can be entertained,
And your feelings and thoughts
Can be rearranged.Feel a new feeling
That you've never felt,
Think of a 'something'
That you've never thought,
Do the great deed
That you've never done,
Win to the prize
That has never been won.Feel other than you felt,
Think other than you thought,
Do other than you did,
Get other than you got.To give your life a new morphology,
You must take a new mythology.
"Didgot" copyright 2004 by J. Harmon Grahn. Verbatim copying and redistribution are permitted in any medium provided this notice is preserved.