People Poems · CTP-0123

Prosperity, Abundance, Resilience

Original typewriter poem by Chris the Poet

Original typewritten page for Prosperity, Abundance, Resilience by Chris the Poet

Transcription

Prosperity is an abundance of...what? Only you can answer that for yourself, and only I for mine—selfishness, however, is not the pathway toward prosperous river flows and golden pastures, no, but rather, it is resilience—the tenacity to go on through mis and mire, storm and surge, mountain and ravine, the night of the soul. When you pass through it, tell the difficult darkness, a beauty to be sure, tell her that I said hello; and when you reach the light, even more beautiful, still, tell her I said hello, too, & to expect my arrival.