the list is in the top drawer under a book by Norman Vincent Peale

i'm better at counting

worries

than i am

at counting

blessings.

i blame my mother for this.

fears are on the list,

future

debacles,

trouble

looming ahead. i'm

well versed

in the weight

of negativity.

but the blessings,

though many

i keep in a drawer

beneath a book,

it's a rarely

read list.