The good news
of living in
as selfish a
world as we
do is that
Heaven will be
an empty place
because most of
you will be
heading down south
Month: April 2023
OneStevePlease
Oh Universe you are
a wily one possessing
a dry sense of
humor for yes you
have kept your promise
giving me peace and
comfort a home and
food all things necessary
for me to be
I wonder if Adam
felt like I do
sitting in the garden
and thinking wouldn’t it
be marvelous to have
someone to share this
with Come on Universe
send me a Steve
CarefulWhat
When one gets
what one wants
getting isn’t nearly
as satisfying as
say wanting it
There’s something factual
in having something
Whereas wanting swims
in desires pool
it’s nebulous prone
to morphing changing
depending upon mood
That is why
said the genie
to the waif
Know precisely what
before you wish
for once granted
one forever has
And having is
worse than not
ArtOfOld
Imagine a life with
little or nothing except
insight and wisdom maybe
a very few comforts
a bit of this
a bit of that
but not nearly enough
to put together even
a simple recipe whether
it be meatloaf or
relationship so now what
Imagination the idea of
making due with what
one has and when
what has is insight
and wisdom everything else
becomes exactly what it
is meant to be
And not what it
was ever supposed to
NewOldBetter
I’d all but forgotten
having when I had
and now without I’m
realizing what little I
have now the busyness
of accumulation is for
the young and lives
at the end resemble
land fills having far
too much of everything
except the important things
We lose track of
what’s important when we’re
gathering having and keeping
But old is old
and new is new
and new becomes old
and old becomes better
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 