Gold Standard

Value, what is value?

A given worth that lives inside a thing?

A shining halo made of many thoughts? 

A weight ascribed by right to rarity?

Art, what is art?

Resplendant patterns wrought by cunning hands? 

The forms of Nature harnassed by a will?

A waste of time, a needless ornament?

Gold, what is gold?

As storm is storm and green forever green

As rock is rock and fire always fire

So gold is gold and can be nothing less.