Scott Simpson · Poetry
They Had Everything but Money
Use For Kindling · source pages 72, 73
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Source page 72
They Had Everything but Money
Evenings once meant apples
and popcorn, cards shuffling stories
loose, no agenda but being.
They sat together to pass
time, but time passed through
them like wind through pine.
Source page 73
They had no wealth, just
neighbors. No PowerPoint, but
presence.
They built something then we are
still unlearning how to need: company,
slow time, the kind of trust that comes
from just showing up again and again.
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