What Actually Works

What does it matter

How nice a thing sounds.

 

What does it matter

What principles

A thing follows.

 

What does it matter

How popular

A thing is.

 

What matters

Is if a thing

Actually Works.

 

Is any human being

In the entire world

Seeking Ineffectiveness?

 

Is any human being

In the entire world

Seeking that

Which does not work?

 

The humans of the world

Are conditioned to chase

That which society brainwashes them

To chase.

 

One may do

Anything he wishes.

 

The Question that every serious man

Must have on his lips is:

Does It Work.

 

If a thing works,

He may do it

Morning, noon, and night.

 

If it does not

Why would any man do it

Even for a second.

 

Doing

Just to do

Is a disease of man.

 

It is a societally-induced habit.

 

Doing

Just to do.

 

No outcome.

No results.

No Arrival.

 

Do.

Just to do.

 

If a man is not going to go anywhere,

Why take a single step.

 

If he is going to go somewhere,

No amount of steps is too many.

 

Humans are sheep.

Living their lives

Enslaved to a unending string

Of empty promises.

 

If it works,

Why stop doing it.

 

If it does not,

Why do it at all.

 

Does it actually work?

 

This is a dangerous question.

 

It is a question

That society does not want to hear.

 

Because it knows

That such a direct question

Will expose it.

 

It will cut straight through

Its incense,

And smoke and mirrors.

 

Does it actually work?

 

Such a question

Overturns the entire world.

 

And one that a human

Never truly asks.

 

For every human

Is so busy

Chasing methods, techniques, hacks, and prescriptions . . .

 

That they never think

To consider

The Truth.

 

Which is unfortunate

For him.

 

For The Truth

Is the only thing

That actually works.

 

Namaste.