(waste)

Nature does not
waste her effort
– as I do.
The mistress of
consequence.
A tenet to learn from
I’d say, one
I’ve been slow to
adopt.
It isn’t how they
train women,
expecting something
back, believing in
consequences & results.
Being assured in the
power of your acts.

I do too much because
it needs to be done,
robbing the
joy from my work,
when I forget to see
what it might do for me.

4/29/99