Observations and Insights
on the Nature of Things
This monthly column features brief essays, poems, poetic micro essays and photography
by Eve West Bessier, Poet Laureate Emerita of Silver City and Grant County, New Mexico.
Look for a new post every first Friday.
Retain – Discover – Service
There is, I believe,
a profound difference
between receiving and taking.
The first being an act of humility,
the second an expression of greed.
So we might be wise to feel averse
to taking, but would be wiser still
to learn how to gracefully receive.
In physical law energy is never lost.
The giving and receiving retain
in theory a balanced pairing.
In all fairness, it seems to me,
some people are always giving
while others are always taking.
Few of us are adept
at the art of true receiving.
The more equitable
and elegant exchange
will be achieved
when we discover
how each of us
in service to the other
retains joy in giving
and gratitude in receiving.
Photo Credit: “Christmas Cactus Bloom,”
Eve West Bessier, 2020
