What To Do?

John Chestnut Sr Park, Palm Harbor, FL

My heart yearns

Aches even

For time spent creating

And marveling with the more-than-human world

What does it mean, then,

To create value

When your most meaningful acts

Are considered

Value-less?

Here I have:

• Picked up trash in a public park

• Stopped to smell the bramble blossoms

• Poured out water to the other persons who populate this planet

• Waved hello with broad smiles to brighten the days of my fellow bumbling humans

• Photographed such staggering beauty

• Written words to pick apart and sort through the insistent paradoxes before me

None of these

Contribute to the metrics deemed meaningful

By those missing mere moments of meaning

Value

Instead

Is the focus

But not necessarily mine

Anymore

What to do

About that?