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Invest In Posterity

We invest ourselves
in our actions
for a dividend
of posterity.
Whomever we affect
carries us on
so that we do not die.

We cannot be entirely
any one
when we owe so much
to so many
who themselves the same,
and we
in turn
more than ourselves
will be whomever we've supported

So hoarding all
is the only way
to end up with nothing.
 

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Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Fri 5th Mar 2021 07:42

Thank you for commenting Nigel. ?

Thanks also to those who have clicked 'Like' for this poem ?

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Nigel Astell

Fri 5th Mar 2021 01:17

After a lifetime of collecting
we forget to leave a space for ourselves.

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