Cultivation is much like tending your fields,
You must pay close attention when a weed is revealed.
If you simply cut it down and don't pull out it's roots
Under the earth it will rest
Until to the surface it shoots.
If you say to yourself: "I'll just do it later."
The weeds will get greater and greater and greater!
And all that time you laughed, and you cried and you slept,
With those undesirable weeds everywhere
You'll discover your garden has become quite unkept.
Even if you try to pull out all of their roots,
You'll find them intertwined with those of your fruits.
By now the only way to rid yourself of all of those bad things
Will be to pull out everything
Even those things you were cultivating.
Then, in the end, with nothing you'll be left,
Nothing that is but a deep, deep regret.
But...if you make sure your garden is kept And get down on your knees when you could have slept, Your crops will be taller and blossom and flower And you'll bear the fruits of your labour forever!
A Montreal practitioner
Quebec, Canada
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