Feeling Significant: An Invaluable Soul

A poem about how strong we must be when we're so needy, at home with family.

Feeling so small and insignificant
In this successful, grandiose world
Of politics, desire, and social flavor
Can make one feel angry,
Hateful, and bitter.
But isn’t your soul
Worth more than a penny?
Come home feeling progressively
Useful and strong;
Be forever tough at the friendly confines –
Your family’s stress is as much your business
As your stress is to them.
And although their timely love and intimacy
May seem distant and distracted,
Their memories of you, old and tired,
And your patience, frustrated and shallow,
Their ultimate will is
Your strength, youth, and vivacity,
In speaking to you so convincingly
Through their own beleaguered and challenged hearts!