Tell me
my teacher
if everything was already there
and if I was just waiting
for it to happen
and that it was already
in what is called my destiny
your destiny
why then we
punished the guilty
tell me my teacher
where and how did I become the doer
wasn't the writer
guilty
to have not written fair and
just.

Talk to me
my teacher
or listen to me now
what I see
when I look down
is it not my shadow
don't I learn
how it gets long and short
dark and light
talk to me
my teacher and
then when I look up
don't I see the sun
the cause
and
that isn't it experience
helping me to get whatever shape I want
when I want of my shadow.

The sun
the me
and then the shadow
but the most eminent of all
my learning
of this all
no one writes what I learn
what you learn my teacher
is for you and by only you.