What matters

A poem on what matters and what doesn't.

Be smart, they said

Be clever, they said

Be clear, state simply

All these goals are not really important.



Don’t want them because they are the real goals

Want them because they are the means to an end

Intention is all that matters

Intention is the choice that makes you

Wanting the right thing for the wrong reasons is still wrong



The goal they serve is to see clearly

What must remain, what is most important?

The real problem they are trying to solve is not of simplicity

But of priorities, of truth

What is real, what is not?

What is an illusion, what is delusion?

What exists, what doesn’t?

Of relationships, what depends on what

And whose foundations lie



Strive for that purpose

Not to become smart for the world

Or clever in your head

That will only fuel your cravings

Drag you into more suffering

The truth will set you free.