Your worth is defined by your actions.
Your actions are defined
by what you can produce.
Is it a thing
or an art?
Is it the love of family and friends
and folks you fuck?
Is it the animosity you create
and the systems that are changed
because of it?

You can make fear or resolve
or a swing set
that your kids may remember
long after you’re gone.
You could produce a really great pizza recipe
or a song like an infection.

But if you leave nothing to show,
what have you done?
Who are you?
What is your legacy?

You have to produce
something.
You have to do a thing
of some sort
or what are you worth?