I have done nothing

but stress through Saturday
watch TV and wrestle with the next
Nothing I can bill for
or weigh, stand back from
and declare–hey
I did that!

But let me in this last hour

give the weekend its flower still

I did awake, in amidst darkness, with an answer
to that sore, sedulous question:
“It is not to seek so much a place to be
as to be a place instead”

And even the apostate in his caducity can say: “…each one of us is unique, of inestimable value…”