Do not love,
Half lover
Do not preach,
Orator
Preaching half truths
Do not dream,
Get by-er
Dreaming half dreams
Do not work,
Ease-seeker
Working half heartedly
And when around you;
Half dreamers, and half preachers, and half workers
Do not succumb
Do not conform
Do not become
Do not seek,
O contented one
Seeking to be different
Do not aspire,
O common one
Aspiring to be remembered
Do not pretend,
O masked one
Pretending to be what you’re not
And when around you;
Contented ones, and ordinary ones, and masked ones
Do not conflate
Do not adopt
Do not plate
Do not achieve,
Self-obsessor
Achieving,
Then justifying
Do not think,
Deluder
Thinking,
Then fooling
Do not write,
Flaunter
Writing,
Then showing
And when around you;
Self-obsessors and deluders and flaunters
Do not get wooed nor woo
Do not rationalize
Do not do
Do not confide,
Manipulator
Confiding half-thoughts
Do not judge,
O fragile one
Judging, to be righteous
Do not promise,
Oathbreaker
Promising,
Then go forgetting
Do not undermine
When within-
You praise
Do not boast honesty
When you hide so
Nor of the latter
For that is not any better
And when in you;
A confider and manipulator
A judging one,
and a fragile one
A promiser and oathbreaker
An undermining one,
and a praising one
A truthful one, and a hider
You find,
Then-
Do not confide,
Only to then manipulate
Do not judge,
Only to then be fragile
Do not promise,
Only to then,
Oath-break
Do not undermine,
Only to then,
Yourself praise
Do not hide,
Only to then, of it, be honest
Choose
Half-lover
Sep 16, 2025
Sep 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM UTC
Do not love,
Half lover
Do not preach,
Orator
Preaching half truths
Do not dream,
Get by-er
Dreaming half dreams
Do not work,
Ease-seeker
Working half heartedly
And when around you;
Half dreamers, and half preachers, and half workers
Do not succumb
Do not conform
Do not become
Do not seek,
O contented one
Seeking to be different
Do not aspire,
O common one
Aspiring to be remembered
Do not pretend,
O masked one
Pretending to be what you’re not
And when around you;
Contented ones, and ordinary ones, and masked ones
Do not conflate
Do not adopt
Do not plate
Do not achieve,
Self-obsessor
Achieving,
Then justifying
Do not think,
Deluder
Thinking,
Then fooling
Do not write,
Flaunter
Writing,
Then showing
And when around you;
Self-obsessors and deluders and flaunters
Do not get wooed nor woo
Do not rationalize
Do not do
Do not confide,
Manipulator
Confiding half-thoughts
Do not judge,
O fragile one
Judging, to be righteous
Do not promise,
Oathbreaker
Promising,
Then go forgetting
Do not undermine
When within-
You praise
Do not boast honesty
When you hide so
Nor of the latter
For that is not any better
And when in you;
A confider and manipulator
A judging one,
and a fragile one
A promiser and oathbreaker
An undermining one,
and a praising one
A truthful one, and a hider
You find,
Then-
Do not confide,
Only to then manipulate
Do not judge,
Only to then be fragile
Do not promise,
Only to then,
Oath-break
Do not undermine,
Only to then,
Yourself praise
Do not hide,
Only to then, of it, be honest
Choose
Half-lover
This is the 2nd poem I have ever written and is inpired from Khalil Gibran's "Do not love, half lovers" poem (Although I have not read it, I only know of the first line). I didnt read it more because i didnt want it to influence me too much while writing this.
P.S: The whole poem is just me talking to myself.