Common Wealth, Common Health

When we invest our hours

In longing for ones who can’t return

The love we send,

We delude ourselves.

We want the thing we cannot have,

Because we cannot handle

Having the thing we can,

And dealing with it

In truth.

But if we would desire to heal

And admit,

That what we need

Is a safety,

To lose the world

And gain our souls,

And get our vision back,

Then, the pull of strength from within

Would cause multitudes of do-able miracles

To come and orbit us, instead,

And we could, at will,

And out of great storehouses,

Choose the wealth

Of ancient treasures,

And newly minted coins.

-jenn long