Full World, Empty Hearts

Full World, Empty Hearts

The world

A basket of gifts,

Responsibility

Life and death

Joy and sorrow

But mostly gifts

And every being that resides here

Is giving

And receiving

But

Sometimes

The balance shifts

Someone takes too much

And doesn't give enough

We call this stealing

And it leaves everyone upset

The times when we are most likely to steal

Is when we stop seeing the gifts

When beings are reduced to objects

Great gifts reduced to property

For when you “own” something

It is your’s

There is no relationship between 

The giver and receiver

But when something is a gift

You treat it with respect and

Give back

You don’t take what was not given

So when everything in this life is a gift

The waters, the grass, The great and endless sky,

You do not blow apart mountainsides in search of coal

It was not given 

And you do not take what was not given.

That’s stealing

And stealing has drastic consequences.