Today’s prompt was to find a saying from another culture and base a poem on it.

more obstacles, please

“I regard every obstacle on my path as an incentive to success.” Hazrat Inayat Khan

thanks for the shortness thanks for the abusive older brother thanks/for the girlfriend who/no longer liked me (make/that last one plural and add/”and wife”)

thanks for trump supporters thanks for no hot water thanks for/shelter in place and/extra big thanks for the woman/who keeps flirting/with no desire to act/ually date me much/less more

they have sharpened me/they have given me time/in the desert and they have given me a/more profound desire

and now the challenge now the BECOMING now/i am more now/i can offer more to all/who intersect my world

more obstacles please/and let me earn my/satisfactions