the moral event horizon in poetry

don’t think of yourself
as a “good person”
think of yourself as a
person trying to be good
if you believe you’re good
you’ll probably get lazy
possibly lose perspective
or even worse yet become
self righteous and God
knows we have too many
zealots on this planet
already, full up there
myself, I am not a
“good person”
I’m a person trying to be good
I am learning how to be good
and if I never stop learning
there’s a chance I will have
done some good before I die
I’m not a good person
but I’m trying to be good
I am trying like hell to
be good and I wish others
also occasionally would