Guide

Exclusion feeds on malcontent.
Inclusion towards a will is bent.

Confidence wants self-delusion.
Funny, so does disillusion.

Loyalty makes belligerent.
Love prefers being outward sent.

Time is bought but it’s never owned.
Efficiency with practice honed.

Duty calls; but some calls are dropped.
Distractions blamed & nothing’s copped.

Pain forgot but joy’s remembered.
Highlights make the bad more tempered.

Rules of thumb inform existence.
Signs & maps make short the distance.