The world perches at our fingertips one tap away
From the tiny chips in our credit cards.
For a few easy payments and a boatload of interest
We can have everything, be anything, go anywhere.
Momentary bliss soon fades; emptiness returns
With a vengeance and consequences.
Debt can’t buy a happy marriage or a contented heart.
Love can’t survive keeping up with the Jones.
Will we ever have enough to be enough,
If we let strangers tell us what’s missing?
Can we embrace simple things and rejoice,
Send Madison Avenue to bed with no supper?
Are we missing the splendor hiding in plain sight?
The sparkle in a lover’s glance shinier than gemstones.
The laughter more pleasing than any recorded sound.
The touch of skin on skin softer than the highest thread count.
There is joy in living to love and loving to live instead of
Living to have things we have no time to enjoy.
Why not work to build relationships and discover
Treasures like sunsets, long walks, and holding hands?