Deep Pockets, Shallow Souls (Original Poetry)

Miracles unfold
all around us
every second of our being,
yet why do so many
remain shackled
by sadness?

Force a smile
with all of the energy
that remains, try to enjoy
the depth and breadth
of what is left
of your journey,

the intricacies
of which still remain
willfully obscure,
even as we
dance with them.

In order to truly see
we must learn to be,
to dig deeply enough
to find our greatest joy
and spend the rest
of our lives getting
to know every
facet of its wonder.

Only then we will know
in the marrow of our bones
that this much more
than just a world
of happenstance,

humanity is much greater
than a tangle of
psychopathic primates
with deep pockets
and shallow souls.

Eric Vance Walton

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