INDECISIVE SONG XIV

 

Always accept your mistakes like friends

who came in to stay the closest to you.

Their wish for pleasant remembering stands

and never for punishment mete out anew.

 

Rather they want to prevent the beggars,

the new mistakes bearing masked faces,

from swindling you with hidden daggers

and leading you astray to dismal places.

 

Now trust past mistakes and experiences,

that instructed into your apprenticeship

and helped as well to character-building.

 

But never put your faith in those appearances

that come to you in false stewardship

so as to allure and dominate your being.