Scenes from the Journey: Never Enough

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Ain't it the truth!

There's never enough,

no matter how much there is.

Never enough love to fill the crater

created by the bomb blast that is childhood.

Lacking a sufficiency of love,

we stuff that hole with stuff—

but there's never enough.

Then, even as we ourselves blast holes

in the psyches of our offspring

(always inadvertently, of course),

we busily fill them

with whatever money can buy,

when what is really needed is time--

slow, quiet, devoted time,

for which we have no time.

Happy is she who finally learns

to fill her own crater,

who knows the meaning of "enough,"

who flips through lists and catalogs

and experiences nary a frivolous want

because her crater has been filled.

A friend speculated on what he would do and buy

if he were "really wealthy."

Me? I thought, I AM wealthy.

I need nothing.

Well, maybe one more pair of John Fluevog boots . . .

Scenes from the Journey