Tortoise Rules.

On the run
and my what fun
it is to tig and tag yourself

"I think I'll change"
you one day claim
"into a better person"

a book
a class
or some therapy taken
and then you go about demonstrating
to everyone you know
that you have changed
when in fact
you're nothing but the same

to force a change
like pushing love
or trying to smile in sorrow
will only make you doubt yourself
then another change you will borrow

and then thus loaded
you will be goaded
into thinking you are prepared

but a smack in the face
or a shock to the system
the changes are gone!
off they ran
and you missed them

you're left as you were
as you are one and only
you change as you live
do not force
it comes slowly