Brian’sPoems

Idle Markets

On Saturday mornings
there is a delightful stillness
within my Dayton apartment complex.
The great financial markets
in Manhattan and London,
in Tokyo and Beijing,
are closed for the weekend.
Thank god we can all sleep a little later,
allowing our human desires to shape this day,
and not the obligations of capital.

Let’s take these easy moments,
while the markets are idle,
to enjoy our inherent freedom,
and to remember genuine prosperity
costs absolutely nothing.