After years spent
waiting for
impoverishment to worsen
or ignorance
to lessen—
for tall ships
which tread the air
to bear us
away or
strand us here,
the truth of who
and what we are
may finally strike us
as priceless
in its ordinariness:
our ticket
to ride has been
punched all along,
and we've already
taken what the world
has to offer.
has a diamond in it;
we are all
so rich
that nobody is.
