How does one know if they know how

How does one to the world bow

How does one read in Chinese the Tao

How does one get milk from a cow

Is there an answer to the world’s ills

Need I use question marks or just take my pills

Life stopped in pictures can be called stills

Writing is no longer done after dipping in ink quills

I know not what I speak of here

I do so for the most part out of fear

Fear I may end up writing like Lear

Fear the end of my life may be quite near L

What do I say to quell my anxieties

My beliefs are nowhere near pieties

I write for the masses in societies

I try not to show often those of my own improprieties

The spice of life I have found and been told

Comes in many forms, such is life’s varieties J