When someone or some circumstance takes what is mine, I tend to bloat up with justified anger.  Yet there’s no reason for anger, no call to injustice.  Everything I own is but a borrowing, and a remainder bequeathed when I pass.  All that I survey as mine in truth belongs to that which lives its life through me.  When someone steals from me, the vast one who lives Its life through us all simply transfers a keepsake from one of its hands to the other.

Just as all who love give the same love, so every tree provides the same shade, no matter the shape of its leaves.  Justice remains perfect as long as it is not stirred with indignation.

© 2022 by Michael C. Just

Mike’s novel, The Dirt: The Journey of a Mystic Cowboy, is available in softcover or eBook formats through Amazon.

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Mike’s other titles, including The Crippy, The Mind Altar, and Canyon Calls, are available through this website or through Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B002

Four of his short stories have recently been published online:

Lies, Ltd. has been published by The Mystery Tribune @ Lies, Ltd.: Literary Short Fiction by Michael C. Just (mysterytribune.com)

The Obligate Carnivore has been published by the Scarlet Leaf Review @ Category: MICHAEL JUST – SCARLET LEAF REVIEW

I See You, Too has been published by the 96th of October @ I See You, Too – 96th of October

Offload, a short story about a man who can heal any disease, is now live and can be read at The Worlds Within at Offload – The Worlds Within