From Day 1

it's never easy to remember your intent
and disregard it.
it's never easy to pick up the phone and dial
then hang up when you hear the dial tone
or throw the weight of the ax as it's coming down.

There are horror stories of submission all around us,
and quests that have intentions that don't match the
strangled process that keeps us all alive

but mostly we suffer from disconnect and
the brutal yet insistant message that our intent should
not be our own and that our quest should be only for
ourselves.

it is ever difficult to convince a being to give up everyone else to
serve himself

unless everyone rallys him to it,
and cheers him
from day
one.