to OWN, or be known?

Now, Do I ever truly Own my own

capacities, or insights into things?

It might be they've been given as a loan,

and I might be a "resting place for wings" -

alighting as they travel past an' on.

A way-place in a temp'ry world right here,

and now - like something light could shine upon,

continue on, and thus starts to appear.

Appearances are how we see at all,

essential to whatever humans quaff.

But knowing, like a finish-line race call,

relates to what appears, when starting off,

as does digestion to a pint of ale.

It has to be drunk to be taken in,

but when it is digested that's the tale

that's told. What happens when it's known? Begin

to see the diff'rents in the curtain's fall?

The warp and weft, the twist within the weave.

And do you then remember to recall

that we're not here for long. Do you believe? - 

That even now, these second bodies are

not ours for very long, down here, at all.

We wake each morning. Wow. We've come this far!

A walk, in someone's garden, big or small.

Whatever I've "come by", is quite a treat.

And I can leave it razed right to the ground,

or else can keep that path beneath my feet,

and aid the beauty that I find around.

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I don't Deserve my own capacities,  teachers, or insights into reality. They are pure Gift and Privilege, and even then, some are just on loan.

What about not only

• capacities,

• teachers, or 

• insights into reality,

but also

• wife &

• children,

• relatives, 

• tribal group or clan,

• culture, 

• society, 

• friends,

• students,

• world view, 

1Cor4:7: "What do you have that you did not receive as a gift."; Luke 16:12: "And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else's property, who will give you property of your own?".

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