TREASURES IN HEAVEN
July 15th, 2024
Crowley Lake Drive
Matthew 6:19-21
I lost my pendant,
a dove with a wafer or solar cross in it’s beak,
on the back was written 'Sterling’.
I searched for hours.
I felt silly and embarrassed to
care so much when I knew it was Justice
who took it from me.
I still fought.
I thought of Candide in a faraway land,
to his amazement jewels lined the streets,
but the natives only knew them to be commonplace.
I’d cursed the invisible framework,
banished it.
It was a joke and a lesson together.
What’s invisible weighs most,
the only value is virtue,
and I’ll give even this body back,
someone will rifle through my jewelry box,
and I’ll join my mother.
