The Big Homework

for the Students of Siam

Find in each face something to love
Look in each pocket for something to share
Listen to every bird and hear the symphony of life
Whistling through the leaves

Seek in every flower the infinite colors of the rainbow
Stand up when all other are sitting
Have vision beyond the masses
Spread opportunities from the truth you have gathered
Guide others by your wisdom

Value yourself:
Don not sell your life at the market for a daily wage.

Achieve your own greatness through action:
Don’t wait a season and do not waste a cloud

Explore your ultimate life:
Don’t simply watch as others climb trees and swim in oceans
But be the forest and be the ocean

Select your role:
Perform with the strength of a hundred suns
Breath deeply and let your education shine
Don not merely cast a shadow

Love others through the touch of a hand, a smile,
A kind word, a shared tear, a quite moment

Create such a garden of your life that in fifty years some flower
will remember and a sacred drop of joy will come to
their face and the people will see in that tear that life is
worth a sacrifice, the struggle for eternal grace
greatness not on the front pages, but in the knowledge
that every day you have truly give

Then, rest a moment – not among the cars and clothes and
electronics you have bought, not among the cassettes
and rings you’ve collected, not among your achievement,
your degrees, nor your pay raises, but among the silent poor.

Listen to the hush of poverty,
The silent closing of hope:
Reach forward with open hands
Listen to the stream that flows through the lives of the poor
Drink the water:
Know the universal taste

Look up the sky from where the rain has come
Where the sun beams, and see

A reflection of yourself of which you are truly pround

Adapted from "A Promise for Siam" by Tom Radzienda

This is also one of my fantasting poems - Netting