A calling

A calling now within the heart

to light the fire that once burnt low

because fortune smiles on he who loves

and pays dividends in kind.

Of fortune said the beggar man

I thought I’d found but then did lose

and spend now a sad and lonely time

with hands like weather spoons

dishing up the seasons

but not true sustenance.

Oh, ‘tis just the mind and how it thinks

and that you know but do not know

when eyes survey the food platters

and believe they’re out of reach.

But I, the I of prolonged fortitude

still find my table laid and bedecked

with the uninspiring tasteless

and I wonder and then I ponder

how to spice the already cooked.

And then I know a re-lit fire

can yet infuse more resilience

to the eating of “what is” today

because I leave it all behind

in the recreation process.

I make, eat, and recreate

until the wonder of

the plain and ordinary

but simply delicious… love!

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