The Art of Purity

‘The Art of Purity’

Find

your essence.

Your gifts,

clear

as a sphere of glass,

are somewhere

under the rubble.

Clarify

until your magic lane

is smooth 

as shining pavement.

Don’t veer. 

Summon restraint,

discipline,

devotion,

courage.

A mad cacophony 

of voices 

will tell you

to bend your gifts

into some corporate saran wrap.

Don’t.

Don’t.

Practice 

the art of purity.

Distill

your essence

and do only that.

Art: Fong Min Liao.