Contemplation on a Wharf We hold this world together with our fragile with our overloaded with our weathered loving kindness please when you feel sad remember someone else please when you feel happy think of someone else because Somewhere someone is unbearably sad and increasingly that somewhere is everywhere please think of everybody getting what they need and if you think that you don't have enough yourself and what you have you can't afford to give away imagine your rope has a little more stretch imagine your hook is only rusted on the surface imagine your heart is as big as the sea (if only in disguise) and keep on holding keep on loving keep on caring it's not only what they need it's what you need to pull yourself together to be whole please won't you hold on if only to this 17 September 2021 Texas Jim On a fishermen's wharf somewhere between Prospect and Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia www.granitecoast.ca