Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Treasure - A Random Poetic Selection

My Treasure


A treasure not sought after much

By elderly or youth;

A beauty not admired as such

By primitive or couth.


The satisfaction she provides

Is not for sale in stores;

No advertisements or bromides

No international tours.


The cynics and the skeptics doubt

What good she has to give;

For me she is what good’s about

And my whole reason to live.


Enjoying her the way I do

You’d think I wouldn’t share;

The truth is, if the world did too

There’d still be much to spare.


Each evening I do creep away

Enwrapped in cloak of night

And cast aside the workaday

For wisdom's sweet delight.