Worth Keeping



I keep

Thinking

About

War

And war-like things

Like drugs in trade

And

Trafficking



Because one life

Is worthy

Even intensely

And intensely

Valuable

And who are we

To say

We’ll keep this one

Let that one

Go

By paperwork

The gold slip by

Aghast

Or sigh

For boredom

In our sins

We’ll bank another

Somewhere

Else

Conquer

Or imprison

Until

Or while

Each of us is caught



The flesh

For opportunity

Whatever else

Inside

Stays in the boxes

Where we keep

Supplies

Aside

To keep us going



Yet each

Might be a savior

No

You’re wrong

None of us

Shall save

Or even aid

To saving

Through an invention

Or a discourse

To change minds

Toward

New understanding

For a race



To have

To change

For the better

As we could have said

Even

Fantastically
To say
And have



Amazing

Opportunity


If we let each one go

To growth

And with assists

And then so much

Better

For a life

Not an investment for

Money

And for blood



Let each one

Live

Who came into this world

As we say

And say

By mortal hands

And by the Lord

As promises

To planets

And to galaxies

Home

And away



And for each other

One

Two

Keep going

Make a world

And then another one

Worth keeping



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