the smallest gesture remakes the world in time
we all weigh it forgetting it is top shelf
the one item within our world to which true praise should be given
clocks tick to tell us it passes
the church tower chimes indicating another turn
underneath it all the leaves fall the snow covers the buds burst the flowers bloom
and we humans that we are see it all
appreciate it sure
some of us taking just what it speaks and living it close to the heart
but the others
to whom we are training mind you
see only as far as the surface before them
glowing with the deposit made to their day
assessing the withdrawal they’ll be able to make based on
what is left