A Selection of Harriet's Meditations

Meditation 37:
Why is ‘why’ so important to me,
And why not ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’ or ‘when’?
Why can’t I be like the others I see
Who don’t seek the motives of men?

I’ve searched for the truth
Through all of my youth,
But the answer I still cannot find.
Should I ask ‘why’ no more,
Close my eyes, shut the door?
Not while reason lives on in my mind

Meditation 63:
Let not fame
Go to your head
Like pink champagne

Meditation 45:
I didn’t ask to be born.
I didn’t choose my name
I had no say in the colour of my eyes,
Or the texture of my hair.
Nor will I decide the day I die.
But I do choose my words,
And I do create my thoughts,
And I do take responsibility for my actions.
All these are my own.
Judge me on these alone.

Meditation 41:
 I am myself , nothing can change me,
I am myself…
You can legislate, defy, manipulate,
But whatever lies ahead
You will not change me –

I am myself.