Your glories
know mine?
Your holdings discipline against your overseas offshoot. Your sprawling enterprise commended nationally. You tourist the distinctive top landmark. You reunion over food and drink with ageing closest kin. Your glories.
Your fond recollections of your immediate esteemed ancestors. Your loving celebrations of your spouses’ long career and relationship successes. Your glories.
You do not know, or care, or talk with my similar fulfilling memories called life experiences, despite past repeated invitations for candour in dialogue. Because you don't notice, are overwhelmed, feel no value in. Your choices, including those never made.
Remembering mine since birth, formative in childhood, resilient as adult, onward till my ashes scattered on world and space at large. The rhythmic present satisfaction of natural, simple, eloquent, imprinted.