“Can you know?”

 

Can you know,

A whole plant

From one leaf?

 

A whole animal

From one bone?

 

How then,

can you know

a man's character

from one action?

 

What we do…

we are.

 

Predetermined as clockwork

as to the outcome,

is that what we do,

we know what we are.

 

It is as it is,

to be as it is,

as what we do,

is precisely what we want.

 

Our suffering then,

is as it should be,

and justly deserved,

as our triumphs are also.

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-Peter