Gold

We were chained, weighed, drowning in a realist's ocean.            

You, gawky, sinking faster than anyone, without notion.      

You authorized density vicarious to charity.

I pitied the one that ebbed faith in verity.            

I loosened your chain, lightened your load.

In life's ocean, you cannot forebode.

I was foolish in my actions. What did I miss? 

You were allowing me to sink further into the abyss. 

Did you give a second thought about me? The bear I burdened? 

You, looking down at me with pity, your guerdon. 

You were happy when I had room to hold.

You vanished when I grew dense as Gold.