The True Weight of a Man’s Soul

The weight of a man’s soul
is never
determined by birth, nor by
grace, or by
gender, or volume, or girth ..
Nor either
by chance, or the sum of its
mass, that
which so effectively made up
the whole
of the vessel it once sailed in ..
But rather,
the amount and the measure
of both the
kindness and love that it dealt
and did share ..
With those it encountered
for each of
those moments that together
comprised the
entire physical life of its host
here on earth,
where it both sheltered and
harboured ..
That is, until its final release
and eventual
departure, being invariably
exhaled on the
last breath of those dying
and though
priceless in monetary terms
it rarely
exceeds the grand total of
twenty-one grams ..