… the path of the Tao needs to be cleared of any weeds of excessive personal importance. ~ Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao (p. 113).

I hate weeding the garden,
even the easy kind with chemicals.
It’s always, “Maybe I’ll get to it…
before the first hard freeze.”
It’s like that in my life as well.
Those pesky weeds sprout up
and I could simply grab them
as I walk by, just do it, make a call,
pay a bill, answer a question.
But I don’t…until the first hard freeze
and for these, they don’t just die off,
they’re harder with more thorns and stickers
by the time they’ve set that long.
And the reason was, I had more important tasks,
significant things to do. And if I could say
that I’d done those things, it wouldn’t hurt
but I wasted the time studying the weeds,
deciding it was below me, too trivial.
It’s time I concentrate on all those weeds
of excessive personal importance
and learn how to live…in the present moment.