You Can Not Own What You Did Not Create

A Poem by Loretta Crosby

“The knowledge of Me is the knowledge of thine own self”

Owning a tree is an impossibility …

That which grows out of the ground through the force

Of nature is not yours…belongs to the world.

Owning a child’s heart…

Borders on ridiculousness because at the moment

Of conception a soul is added to the equation … belongs to God.

Owning a spouse…

Another infeasibility because marriage was created

With the primary purpose of procreation … that institution

And all it components…belongs to God

Owning a home…

Built by laborers, planned by architects

Financed by the sweat energy of your life…belongs mostly to the bank.

Owning your own business…

Ah…now we’re getting some where.

The idea comes from your imagination

Which is an attribute of the mind

Of course the mind and its intellectual ability

Is a subset of the Soul

Oh but we already know where the Soul comes from…belongs to God

Which brings me to the point of this exercise…

You can only own what you create, and

What you create comes wholly from the mind of God

With instructions given you for the implementation

Of His grand design.

And so if we are bright we plea as Einstein did when he uttered:

“I want to know the mind of God.”

For it is the closest we can come to this idea of ownership and creation.

Still, it is quite possible…and indeed encouraged

That we be in constant observation of His munificence,

And beyond that he lets us in on His thoughts

Through the Creative Word and His wondrous Grace.

So, my friend, why not humble yourself and face the truth?

God owns you--and me, and what recourse have we?

Xcept to bow down in adoration for his wonderment.

As we realize in the fullness of day …

We can not own that which we did not create.

Copyright 2006 (c) Loretta Crosby. All Rights Reserved.