RUNNING INTO THE WAVE(26 December 2004)

Love no one

Do not let yourself be seduced 

By the kind word or the helpless gesture

Cultivate a godlike indifference

Imagine you are the stock market of the world

And that a million people can be swept away

Without causing a flicker of your ticker tape

So long as they are poor

If you weaken

If you listen to the tides of your own heart

You may be drawn down onto the beach

Beyond pity and terror

Helplessly caring

Running into the wave