Purpose

I will not look anywhere but here.

Here is the place where focus is possible,

here it can bore to the needed depth.

Things that fly outside may look attractive —

I may think I wish to turn, to sample, find them,

but that kind of skittering, finally

won’t drill down into

what I need to understand

This is something I know within.

It is a deep unarguable truth.

There may be stories told of freedom,

of flying high and wide,

but freedom without purpose

can’t sustain me,

and purpose is what’s mine to find right here.

©Wendy Mulhern

December 2, 2019