mara

and so to protect your peace
what is it you perform?
if you withhold care and let it cease
it will become your norm

the operative action
is to close your eyes
to engage in a redaction
of other people's cries

it's an exhortation that
you're the only one who counts
and for the trials of others
your care should be renounced

is there a finite amount
of concern to go round?
if you think about others
will you have lost or have found?

in the act of holding care
how are you diminished?
what harm falls that you beware
why is it you desist?

and so if you will protect your peace
what will you have made?
the ties that bind you will release
and receive callousness in trade

peace shall be all of ours
or we will be precluded
there's no way but together
seek alone and be secluded