Give and Take

I look out over the grey,
snow covered fields,
I know there are words unspoken,
ideas unknown,
unfulfilled dreams and untold stories
slipping away like ships
passing in the night;

while the world goes on
just the same.

I know that time passes by,
with or without our permission,
I know that there is nothing
new under the sun,
I know that we live in a world
of give and take,
designed to be in perfect balance
between the two,
where what you take
should equal that which you give,
where the sum total
of all your losses and gains
should equal exactly zero.

But this is not a perfect world,
not a world where things
go as designed,
this is a world where those
who can.……..do,
and those who can’t………don’t,
while those who take
take more,
and those who give
give more,
until there is nothing
to be taken,
nothing left to be given,
as those who take
look around for fresh victims
upon which to feed,
and those who have given it all
simply fade away,
never to be seen
or heard from again.

This is a world
where children starve to death,
while great banquets and feasts
are held just around the corner,
a society where elderly people
freeze to death in cold, dark houses,
while fortunes are spent on electricity
for Christmas decorations and lights,
a land where money makes you right
and lack of it makes you wrong;

despite being denied
from church pulpits everywhere.

Yes it is a give and take world,
but the day is almost here
when the scales will be balanced,
it’s just a matter of energy dynamics,
a fact of simple physics,
what goes in,
must equal what comes out;

what is given,
must equal what is taken.
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