Determination

The people who aim to will
Themselves to apparently
Impossible achievements

Are shrewd as revivalists
Calling the sick to be healed—
Don’t call on the amputees.

Always call on the feeble,
Those lacking in energy,
Those who are vaguely distressed.

Plan to build a company,
Become a celebrity,
A genius, something easy.

It’s not hard to pick something
No effort of yours could move,
No matter how determined.

Don’t announce you plan to win
The lottery on x date,
Unless your goal was prison.

Don’t command natural law.
Don’t make it your career aim
To reverse the planet’s spin.

Do claim you’ll come back some day,
If you like. A million years
Gone, who’s to say you weren’t right?