Crow’s nest

Crows eat the seed
Farmers sow.
Toilers grow
and thieves crow.

People cache curios
Magpies dread.
Mouths are fed
and coins collected.

Shelter in
Nests of sticks.
Refuge in
Nests of myths.

Image credit: In the crow’s nest, on the lookout for whales (1903), J. P. Hyde Price.

Inspiration for the poem:

Myth, says a Church Father is “what is believed always, everywhere, by everybody”; hence the man who thinks he can live without myth, or outside it, is an exception.  He is like one uprooted, having no true link either with the past, or with the ancestral life which continues within him, or yet with contemporary human society.  – C. G. Jung, Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 5: Symbols of Transformation