Gifting

It's taken a veritable lifetime. The journey
was long but well-spent with no regrets
and lined with memories lodged deep
within. She began with nothing eventually
acquiring everything, and then stopped
looked about her and yearned for nothing.
It is a type of ceremonial acknowledgment
when people attain another year after
reaching year after year and if they are
fortunate they lack for little appreciating
all that life has afforded them in its
timeless rhythms and repetitions and the
need of its creatures for emotional warmth
and reciprocation. So when he asked she
responded 'nothing'. Her acquisitiveness
had evaporated, there was no inner urge
to sharpen her need for it had diminished
its ghost informing her to dissent. He, on
the other hand listened to his own psyche
long regulated by familiarity's habitual
response, recognizing yet setting aside
her appeal to reason when she spoke of
having everything, needing nothing, quite
understanding that to her he was everything.