Keeping something alive
Means checking it has
Water, fuel, light, and love.

Then checking again.
For all the years you are alive.
And all the years it is alive.

It means refilling bowls, heating water
in a pot, folding clothes.
Pressing money into a hand.

It means keeping yourself alive too.

And how can you do that?

How can you live long enough
To keep everything you love, alive?