Learning to focus

May I be limited sometimes 

So I learn my boundary well,

May I be humble

So I may see true greatness,

May I see my lack and fill it with sincerity,

Not pride.

May I be lifted up by those who can teach me.

May I see the flaws in my examples 

Without shame or hatefulness- 

And mend my own fences;

Apply vinegar to my own glass windows

And 

May I love.

May I learn a bigger truth;

May I share it with a listener who doesn’t resent that I formerly had smaller ears than now,

And buckets with holes; the wisdom slipped through and was gone.

But now, I have sturdy sacks with ties.

May I have older sisters to push me off little cliffs toward bravery.

May I learn to stand in shouting crowds quietly.

May I in this way earn

A little moment

To share what I have learned

With you.