Give an inch ... and they'll take a mile

And then what it is YOU are, loses its smile

For the very things which attracted them

Is now absorbed by the changes that stem



From their different ideas about lifestyle

And your way of doing things by the pile

Is lost as methodologies then undermind

All you've accomplished with YOUR kind



Of organization - which may not be perfect

But much of it is simple in some respects

For it deals with things in the order of time

Some of which resolve themselves as we climb



TOGETHER - up the hills and mountains ahead

And then, as we get to the next rise, the bed

We share - adds to the assumed resolution

For this element - supports the evolution ...



- Tristram