Do not love,
Half lover

Do not preach,
Orator
Preaching half truths

Do not dream,
Get by-er
Dreaming half dreams

Do not work,
Ease-seeker
Working half heartedly

And when around you;
Half dreamers, and half preachers, and half workers

Do not succumb

Do not conform

Do not become


Do not seek,
O contented one
Seeking to be different

Do not aspire,
O common one
Aspiring to be remembered

Do not pretend,
O masked one
Pretending to be what you’re not

And when around you;
Contented ones, and ordinary ones, and masked ones

Do not conflate

Do not adopt

Do not plate


Do not achieve,
Self-obsessor
Achieving,
Then justifying

Do not think,
Deluder
Thinking,
Then fooling

Do not write,
Flaunter
Writing,
Then showing

And when around you;
Self-obsessors and deluders and flaunters

Do not get wooed nor woo

Do not rationalize

Do not do


Do not confide,
Manipulator
Confiding half-thoughts

Do not judge,
O fragile one
Judging, to be righteous

Do not promise,
Oathbreaker
Promising,
Then go forgetting

Do not undermine
When within-
You praise

Do not boast honesty
When you hide so
Nor of the latter
For that is not any better

And when in you;

A confider and manipulator
A judging one,
and a fragile one
A promiser and oathbreaker
An undermining one,
and a praising one
A truthful one, and a hider

You find,
Then-

Do not confide,
Only to then manipulate

Do not judge,
Only to then be fragile

Do not promise,
Only to then,
Oath-break

Do not undermine,
Only to then,
Yourself praise

Do not hide,
Only to then, of it, be honest


Choose

Half-lover