Monday of Week 20 in Ordinary Time

Jesus said, if you would be perfect.
Go, sell what you possess.
We need not be part of the elect.
We can settle for less.

But will we ever give away everything.
Of course not., why should we.
Even our own wedding ring.
Everything we own, as far as we can see.

But we carry on giving.
Keeping what most of what we own.
Not then grasping.
A kind of middle way , a medium tone.