I’ve tried to show you everything I know.
I’ve paid in parenting the patient price.
But let me emphasize before you go
away from me the gist of my advice.
And take it with the wisdom of your time:
react, absorb, and meditate upon it.
Permit me to deliver it in rhyme
and I’ll resist the figure of a sonnet.

If I’ve discovered anything throughout my busy hours
(and I assert I have and you agree),
I’ve learned to love embarrassment and all that it empowers,
for it’s the mood that hones a wiser me.
So know yourself and like yourself and recollect the you –
reality is nothing more than seem.
If I can give you any charm that’s powerful and true,
I cast it in the shape of self-esteem.