K.J. Okker
Economics of Poetry/Poetry of Economics
- Growth will follow
Pursue truth and justice
Find honesty and transparency in every drawer of your secret cupboard
Never disrupt, never blow into a fire
Just keep your thoughts locked away if not useful and hopeful
Keep variables you can control at bay
Fulfil your potential and make others feel as you are supporting them all along the way
Kiss friends and foes, disregard hierarchies as first and absolute sign of respect for what is worth
Change attitude but do not ever change your character, it’s the genetics, my friend
Growth will follow
Not as prerequisite of any of your actions
Not as a mean to an end
But because of all the hopes you will have kept high
For you and for all the multi-coloured souls
You will meet day after day
And growth will learn to follow
Walking behind you
Because the future is not about growth
But about otherness, happiness and being able
To look at your past, finding into it
All the things making your present
The right place to be
And the future an unknown place
Already smelling of victory and violets
Growth will follow, like a drunken butterfly