The other Thing

Beware you poor ones.
The very envies and deceits and strife for the rich ones,
Do you not yourself know that your very cup has been made light?
What worry do you bear?
Food is it not always there?
Your children do they not understand?
And do they not learn even so just as the rich ones do?

I tell you in sooth that if they are taught by a bitter heart,
their very ways will thus become bitter.

Instead I say, be more thankful,
for your thoughts will remain free to you and even benefit you,
Whereas the rich one's own thoughts could actually steal away his very inheritance,
but you are free.

For the one who sits content with beans,
be thankful for they were provided,
To the one who works but remains poor,
do not do so out of the bitterness of yourself,
it is easy to do, Instead remember the littles ones which you feed.

Remember always that you still have the breath for love.
For love has always been free.

(C)