R(Em)ote

What has value needn’t be counted
but nurtured or created –
oh the time I have wasted –
trying to organize what can only
be dissipated.

Sometimes I’ve heard the inexorable
instructions
but delayed acting on them
out of fear or self-preservation

and sometimes at the right times
I avoided tending
the good and giving gardens.

What is the right balance
between love and wisdom?
I don’t know, but in confusion

rest might have been wiser
than making a rote decision.