We Alone

We alone can devalue gold

by not caring

if it falls or rises in the marketplace.

Wherever there is gold

there is a chain, you know,

and if your chain

is gold

so much the worse

for you.

Feathers, shells

and seas-shaped stones

are all as rare.

This could be our revolution:

To love what is plentiful

as much

as what is scarce.

Alice Walker

Photo taken using Miss Kylie's shells :-)