To enter each day empty,
with trusting hands
you will receive what you need—
this is the richness
of spiritual poverty.
Every day we cast the net,
and only what is ours
returns to us;
to argue with our catch
only diminishes it.
A note to writers:
looking for writing prompts?
Pay attention.
Each day offers fresh prompts,
how could it not?
Only recognize
the renewed challenges,
masked opportunities,
sly revelations and
surfeit of second chances.
Attention is gratitude
and increases our chances
of catching Beauty's bounty,
this-worldly and
otherworldly.
©Yahia Lababidi