Poverty

Bernie Bleske
2 min readMay 18, 2021

A poverty of meaning and purpose.
A poverty of satisfied desire.
A poverty of desire.
A poverty of ownership.
A poverty of Latin roots for not, nor, against, away.
A poverty of choice.
A poverty of decision.
A poverty of order, structure, design.
A poverty of leadership, control, god.
A poverty of solitude, of silence and sleep and peace.
A poverty of sky and plant, cloud and hill.
A poverty of beauty and youth, of unbridled joy.
A poverty of innocence.
A poverty…

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