I Am Your Master

I can make you
rise or fall.
I can work for you
or against you.
I can make you
a success or failure.

I control the way
you feel and the
way you act.
I can make you work, laugh, love.
I can make
your heart
sing with joy. . .
excitement. . . elation.

Or, I can make you wretched . . . dejected . . . morbid.

I can make you
sick . . . listless.
I can be as
a shackle . . .
heavy . . .
attached . . . burdensome.

Or, I can be as
the prism's hue . . .
dancing . . .
bright . . .
fleeting . . . lost forever unless captured by
pen and purpose.

I can be nurtured and grown to be
great and
beautiful . . .
seen by the
eyes of others
through action
in you.

I can never be removed . . . only replaced.

I am a THOUGHT!
Why not know me better?

~  By Bob Conklin, 1967
Author of
Adventures in Attitudes.