Selfishness...

FIRST TAKE:

Selfish

Selfish

has followed like

a shadow...

must be somebody else's

past that haunts

and hounds!

For I've taken all of what Life hands!

I have peeled it, prepared it

with a knife

I'm willing to split

every last morsel

if you like...

though we are equally full

of ourselves from what I can see

...not serving up our conceit!

Just the vastness of appetite

one can't seem not to feed

while following along

after doggone

Generosity.

TAKE TWO:

In the Hands of God

I've scampered

and scavenged

this seabed

like a severed claw

selfish selfish selfish

were the whispers

plummeting from the

coastal shore...

As these thoughts roamed

from the huts and totems,

the shells and the bones,

where the rest of us

had washed up

readied long ago

in the hands

of God