These days I own one pair of prescription glasses at a time
like a beggar.
This is most unwise.
What happens when my only pair of glasses breaks?
I have to go to a pharmacy and steal a pair of glasses
is what happens,
like when it happened a few months ago
– only that time I paid for them
like a sucker!

Most unwise.

Once, as a virtual child,
I was horseback riding up North,
and I put my glasses in my shirt pocket,
so as not to let them fall off while riding,
and I rode in a pack down a trail.

The glasses bounced out of my shirt pocket
and I couldn’t get out of the pack
to retrieve the glasses
– not that it would have done any good,
as they were trampled
by all the other horses behind mine.

Forlorn as I was on the trip home,
I had another pair to wear
back at the house.
I was wiser back then
– or my parents were.

Now, with one pair in my possession,
I lack the backup
for such emergencies.
If glasses break
I need to get on the ball immediately
to address the situation.

I must become wise again
and soon.