16486 - If you can

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Evi Charitidou

For, on the one hand, if you can
hold the whole yoke
of the master,
you will be perfect;
on the other hand, if you cannot,
do
what you can;
because effort
already constitutes evidence
of inner will
to materialize
and thus you see
that everyone
in one’s own forces
plays a role
and if you can
thanks to endurance
lift it
on behalf of the others too
you already know
that this is
the due thing to do
without having any need
of being told about it
since you see
the living example
of the perfection
through the work.