Don't take everything from life

Don't, don't take everything from life.
I don't know who came up with the idea that people
should try good and evil
and "eat" everything that life "carries on a platter."

You should not taste
other people's gossip, jealousy or envy at all.
It happens that after drinking a drop of sadness,
you realize that you have no strength left for joy.

At least try NOT to take too much:
someone else's aggression and boredom.
Try to close your soul more tightly
from fears, as well as from recklessness.

You should not take into your world (and just into the house)
narcissistic and unfaithful
girls or men with an iron fist,
cold and cynically hypocritical.

Take love, give thanks in return.
Take the good and give it back, multiplying it.
Try to take the hope of a quiet light,
but avoiding the dirty and false.

You turn the wheel of this life
as you want (well, at least as you can).
Don't, don't take EVERYTHING from life.
Take only what you really BELIEVE in.