Fortune cookies

If you try to make it alone,
expect some broken bones.
Do not focus your hate
on anything that doesn't need to break.
Only a few will survive:
the crazy, frightened, paranoid.
Wonder, wonder, what you're for?
Answer: transfer genetic code.

If anyone shows you love,
sit down with them
over a cup of green or black tea-
ask them 'bout their family,
'cause in the end I doubt
if anything will matter as much as this.

If you want to take the king,
you might have to trade your queen.
Failure, shame, catastrophe,
are better for you than lucky breaks.
If you try to make it alone,
expect some broken bones.

If anyone shows you respect,
sit down with them
over a couple cups of coffee-
ask 'em what they want to be,
'cause in the end I doubt
if anything will matter as much as this.