he said

like someone who didn't know
but hoped

the meek inherit the earth?
and she turned to him and
said
"the meek don't inherit
shit."
and i know what he hoped
and i know what she meant
and privately
always believed it

sitting here now i know
what she learned
that patience
is meekness
that silence is meekness
and meekness is peace
and meekness inherits
by sitting in a rocking
chair
smoking a cigarette,
drinking your coffee
doing your daily duty
in peace
watching those fools run
around
run themselves
and their plots
through the ground
till all that is left is you
having overcome much
by the art of rocking
the prayer of smoking
in past times put upon much
but now
sitting here
meekly