An Excerpt from a Work in Progress

I wrote the following poem in the course of working on my new book - another work of non-fiction, but this time the book as a whole will not be in poetic form.  In any case, the book's first section is devoted to a discussion of Daoism and that's how I came to write the following poem. 

Ode to the Dao

Striving to be secure

Only exposes you further

So the latest tech in turn
Attracts the latest hacks

All of which by the Dao  

Can be fully foreseen

Everything brings
Its opposite to fruition

Contrasts propel and 

Propagate the entire

Realm of 10,000 things

Teaching us that

All such distinctions

Lovely as they may be

Are trivial in the grand scheme 

Like a peacock’s plumage