opponent

choose well your opponent my friend/especially those with whom you cannot win/age and injustice and mindlessness for instance

and do be a friendly opponent/when challenged to a competition or other game/and let courtesy and goodwill flavor your efforts

your ultimate opponent is your dark self/and worse than laziness or other neglect/worse than weight gain or other addictive earmarks/is the scornful dislike of self/that comes with the self-scolding and self-rage and self-flagellation

those behaviors just keep you where you don’t want to be/and dig more deep the hole/you wish to escape

but when you laugh at realized absurdities/when you realize that massaging a problem works more effectively than tackling it/and that sometimes cooperation and not opposition will yield success/a burden will lift/and heaviness lighten

lightning might be spectacular/but lightening can be even more so though less dazzling

and enlightenment/ah enlightenment/dissolves chains