Journal #3
Survival is
nature’s morality.
Life on its own
is valueless.
We give it value.
We make it worth
something,
and say it’s so.
Like your Aunt’s
favorite pearls
or your Uncle’s
golden watch.
We are the tree
falling with no one
there to hear it crash.
George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Havana Times, South China Morning Post, The Buffalo News, and more.
See all his poems on Tea House here.
