Accounting

When you sit in the counting house
To take stock of the things you got
And you realize that
Time and again
You've come up short
And today is just like that
Just like any other
Every day
And you wonder why you do the things you do
The things that continue to come out in the red
Under the line
You choose the things
That move your soul
Over the things that have return -
The investment in pain that sometimes brings joy,
The investment in fear that sometimes brings courage,
These things that take moments
Cut you off at the ankle
These things that make life a thing worth doing
Each morning
Sitting and feeling the too cold breeze chill your shoulders
The freshness of that air
Is worth the freezing.