Take What You Need
Take what you need,
but leave something behind.
The more you hoard,
even more will be taken away.
It’s a Dickensian story,
yet truer today than ever.
You may know it experientially.
So why not reverse the flow?
Give as much as you have to give.
Then when your light begins to fade,
your soul will become so light
it may easily fly away.
“The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.”
This poem has been adapted and was originally shared on March 31, 2017, and was titled The More You Take. The original is included in Tomorrow Could Be Wonderful: Brian's Poem of the Day: 365 Daily Meditations Vol. 1.
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