From the bottom of my heart

Input equals output (?)

Does the amount of effort we put in matter? 

It does not seem so. I plant

so many seeds, but they never seem

to come to fruition. I pour

so much sweat and tears, but they never seem

to fill the cup to the brim. It is almost

as if someone picked the seeds 

into their palms in the middle of the night,

or poked a hole in my Styrofoam cup. But

I know that there are still some seeds

and the cup is still half-filled, so 

even though input does not equal output,

I'd still choose to stay put