Ugly is all I am. I am one, One alone, But responsible to all. I hurry to taste each of this world's choice nectars. For my Rest is sweeter when it lasts only one moment. This Time is fragile and dear.
Time falls away as the frigid water slips out of a cupped palm, leaving the drinker thirsty.
Every day is traded for a jewel to be guarded by the soul. I will buy today a peridot, tomorrow a sapphire, and the day after a diamond. I pray that I will die having judiciously sold my days for treasures that cannot rust or rot away. The Human soul- Woman or Man is more than flesh. I will quit the earth closer but not quite there.