The Map Maker

I hear the birds – I think the rain has stopped;
For days on end that’s what the weather’s brought
But it’s no care – for this is where things turn
To upward curve with all the things we’ve learned.

For spins and stalls were not my favorite time,
When to those heights – five thousand feet we'd climb,
Then slow right down until our stalling speed –
Cross aileron and rudder – dive was steep.

To take one’s hands and feet off all controls
Took guts, to override such fears as those;
But planes are built to self-correct if we
Can in control of inner feelings be.

As we pull out of dizzy spin, the pull
Quite sickening is – now they don’t train to full,
But to the edge take novice pilots through
Routines to learn, corrections they must do.

It’s like that now – for you must feel the shake
That comes with stalls – corrections you must make,
If you’re to shift to safer flying speed,
And level out, gain altitude you need.

“Air over wings” is what your lift’s about;
Speed of that air will give you lift without
Concern for ground – for flying is a blast –
But there are rules, conform and you will last.

The first is this – you need those body gifts –
The ones you lack, or you will be remiss;
They shut you out – don’t think they need your thought;
Don’t do the same – and body-life you got.

The giver-gift will greatest problem be –
Perceiver gift can all their antics see;
Compassion gift controls the giver gift;
Then teachers crave what seeing eyes don’t miss.

You’ve learned to blend perceiver-teacher mix;
Compassion then perceiver blends like this;
But now the part that you must learn to do
Is giver gift – allow it close to you.

The other gifts are not a problem here –
The server gift draws down your insights clear;
Encouragers cheer up your dreary days;
And admin-types do business task which pays.

But giver gift – now there’s the rub I’d say,
For its behind perceiver’s gift, and pays
(Or funds) your work – and thus controls your life –
Throw it away, you’re in for bitter strife.

For broke’s not fun, as you found out at noon;
You’ve got the power, but you’ve no living room,
For body-life’s constrained in harmony;
With unchecked growth, that’s when we cancer see.

So keep in mind that givers need you too –
They’re in behind and need the likes of you
To do what they find kills the life in them –
To be out front, not with the woodwork blend.

“Air over wings”? That’s money, you know that;
That’s Robertson – although you found the trap
Of doing this without the admin gift –
But ran afoul of givers’ funding shift.

So we set up Confederation Bridge –
Partitioned off the pink from blue which rids
You of administrator types – reverse
To your approach which puts you in a hearse.

But now I see the work which must be done –
Blending of gifts – and giver is the one
Which is the gift behind the pink (that’s you),
To give you cash, to heavy lifting do.

At first I thought it was from blue it came;
Perhaps it will – but givers just the same
Are who will fund perceivers work in pink –
It comes to that – delightful – now I think.

You said one time I’m teacher-drawn too much;
That’s giver side – those are the ones they touch
To get the info they need, to decide
Which road to take as they hold back and hide.

They need to know the obstacles, the scene –
Not just one part – the whole – what teachers mean
“From A to Z, without priority” –
Here’s what’s out there – the part you’ll need to be –

Assured there are no rocks when you go forth
To make some cash – your compass set on North
Is half your need – a chart of waters deep,
With all the rocks depicted – that you’ll need.

So that’s your job – how they’ll relate to you –
Your teacher side – record things seen by you;
Once they’ve got that, they’ll make the move that makes
Them piles of cash – then you’ll both celebrate.

So thank that chick for shredding up that form –
For in that act was this new insight born;
In her I saw this key to interface
Of giver gift (with you in any case).

Your top two gifts plus research tendency,
Consolidate into a chart to be
A guide for them through all the shoals and rocks,
Which they can use – exchange in money talks.

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