Green: Creative Platypus

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Green

I want to die
When I see
The opportunity
That lies open to you
Because you do not have
What I have
Because you are not me.

Life is full of doors
and one by one their
Vistas close
Until we are alone
With the choices that
Make us who we are.

I wish I could give
You what I have
For closed doors make
a home and a home
Can be filled with
Things worth having.

Walk on, then, in all
the wondrous places of
the Poor,
Until you have filled
Yourself with things
You need a place
For.
Then shut your doors
and make yourself a
Home.

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