Bend It Like Bamboo

I can teach you how

You may kowtow;

Or slice carps or mullet

As an expert;

If you be a traveler

Survival skills I can impart;

But it will do you no good.

Life’s journeys begin from within

And every by lane,

Within the whole circle

where roads man-made, are

turnpikes,-pass over

and find yourself

At the centre,-

Where Nature’s unwritten markers

guide your feet.

If nature has taught,

You have learnt something more than

Mere practice of art.

Ah, then I shall teach you

Willingly what you lack.

I shall also profit from my lessons.

benny