Deposit
By Steve M Schoonmaker, Kasilof
What of Human investments,
what do they mean?
What are the gifts that come in from the Streams?
And our Human economies
what do they mean
to biology’s truths at the Bank
of the streams
At returns nursery, in it’s link
to the Sea, where if just left alone
continuance would be
But if Gifts are for taking
for the Eagles in trees
for the Gulls on the sandbars
for the stakeholders needs
with our minds about budget
that can live without means
If giving’s what gives
then what gives is the Streams
Unless giving is giving by just letting be
by Humans grown conscious
by take’s scarcity
Our Human economies,
what do they mean
concerning these matters
at the Banks of the Streams
where deposits are made
and then left to grow
for the gifts of the Salmon
and a life they can know
it’s this gift of themselves
that’s biology’s truth
Let’s give Salmon deposits
Yes, and given from you
Yes, and given from me
Conscious of truth
For continuance to be
No more blaming to do
For continuance to be
it’s now, or past due.
