Exchanges Between Humans

Every need
Relationship
Meditation
Represents an exchange
A transaction, to put it crudely
A sharing with a vector

Whether gift
Or purchase
All life
Is a series of transfers
Even the thoughts
In one's own head
One to one

Love and exploitation
Power and leaving
Each concept we've named
To eat
To sleep
Exchanges with bacteria
And dream consciousness

Whether I'm dropping the quarter
In your piggy bank or my own
It's all a stage
Though not all for latinum's sake
Or to hoard the goods

To live robust happy
Only a tiny savings
And many transfers
Of kindness
Of rest
Of knowledge
Without anxiety
About the end
Or the lack

The invisible hands
And mine most visible
Sometimes feel
Fear of death
Or jealousy
Or ambition
And those hands must rest
On my heart
Or in yours

So if you see me in the market
Or the field
Or roads
Exchange with me
And I'll give you what I have
So we can keep giving
And receiving
And living