Leisurely Pleasures
Leisure:
Like retirement,
a feeling
achieved through patient paths
of health
and safety.
Pleasure:
A similar feeling
achieved through polypaths
of healthiest wealth
and risky win/win opportunities,
more actively curious
than passively patient.
Resiliently resonant,
leisurely pleasured
sensory awareness
we can no more be
with the same person,
in the same place,
at the same time, twice
Than we can re-enter
the same river twice.
Baptismal pleasure
is less about one time immersion
than full time rapture.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2020
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