Robert Bly Quote

IT IS SO EASY TO GIVE INI have been thinking about the man who gives in.Have you heard about him? In this storyA twenty-eight-foot pine meets a small windAnd the pine bends all the way over to the ground.I was persuaded, the pine says. It was convincing.A mouse visits a cat, and the cat agreesTo drown all her children. What could I do?The cat said. The mouse needed that.It’s strange. I’ve heard that some people conspireIn their own ruin. A fool says, You don’tDeserve to live. The man says, I’ll string this ropeOver that branch, maybe you can find a box.The Great One with her necklace of skulls says,I need twenty thousand corpses. Tell you what,The General says, we have an extra battalionOver there on the hill. We don’t need all these men.