When people say they're tired of a person, often a friendβ Do they mean, exhausted with the idea of submission to their actions Responding to their preferences Falling prey to all their ways Or hearing them drone loquaciously Putting down disagree-ers gratuitously Speaking of themselves, about very little else Until all hope and faith in them has deteriorated beyond all mercy? I am yet to confirm What is true beyond all else Gone through the Rubicon, Universal to all nations But why must I tolerate a monk That devoutly praises himself to the depths Beyond all fierce comprehension, His devotion remains a quandary