Life's measure of grief or pleasure

Is how we rate against our IDEAL ME

Full disaster or light airy laughter

Results from PLUS or MINUS that we see

Ego boost is not some other word

It rules our life in ways oft near absurd

As unreal image blights the simple "be"

"To be or not to be" is not the question

But WHAT to be; response to all suggestion

Failure in our life

React to all the strife

And set self- image from that FALSE collection

So try to set perspective in your life

Test persona by a view ABOVE the worldly strife

Set to state anew

That others crushed and blue

Somehow RAISE the image of the WIELDER of the knife

What is it that you feel you really need?

What is it that you give; lend out as SEED

Which grows to IMAGE in another eye

REFLECTS on source as MEASURED cry

Of GAIN or LOSS; of Light or Dross---- the heart within does bleed

Oh to see ourselves as others do?

To build the PLUS with failures ever few

As IMAGE matches SOURCE

Without the need for force

To close the gap that lightness bade adieu

And if you wish to reinforce a friend

Close the gap to image that YOU send

By raising them in life

Above the petty strife

The measure of SUCCESS? YOUR ego REND

Of course it's easy to create in life a FOE

Just send the vibes of image seen, as you consider, LOW

But if you're wrong and know it

You could just simply blow it

And reap the crop of seedling's stunted grow

So analyse the image that you see

Look at self---- and others to find the ideal "me"

And the ideal "you", as others want to be

Then watch your words and actions

See the counteractions

If gap is wide your world is all at Sea

Balance in your picture and you have found the key

To fulfilment in fact

And the way to use tact

To bring pleasure to others for free

But don't fall in the "just be candid" trap

Or you will be the one to take the rap

For image that is down

The picture that of clown

With make-up slipped---- exposing him to slap