What Good Does Worry Do?

All manʼs efforts are for his mouth,
yet his appetite is never satisfied.
What advantage has a wise man
over a fool?
What does a poor man gain
by knowing how to conduct himself before others?
Better what the eye sees
than the roving of the appetite.
This too is meaningless,
a chasing after the wind.
Whatever exists has already been named,
and what man is has been known;
no man can contend
with one who is stronger than he.
The more the words,
the less the meaning,
and how does that profit anyone?
For who knows what is good for a man in life, during the few and meaningless days he passes through like a shadow? Who can tell him what will happen under the sun after he is gone? ~ Ecclesiastes 6:7-12

Why worry? What good will it do?
The one thing man tries to do
leaves him still short of the goal —
food and appetite,
property and desire for more,
learning etiquette,
succeeding by the rules.
Look around.
It’s enough.
Seeking more, more rewards like handfuls of wind.
Cut out the thinking, the reasoning, the
arguments.
Enough of words. Enough.
You’ll never figure it out
as long as you wander the world.
Trust him. He’s God!
Lord of creation, of yesterday,
today, and tomorrow.

Open my heart. Let me turn it over to you.
I don’t need to figure it out.

Rollins, Barbara B..
A Time for Verse - Poetic
Ponderings on Ecclesiastes.
Eagle Wings Press imprint
of Silver Boomer Books.
Kindle Edition.