Curiosity comes

Curiosity comes

With so many questions

And prizes knowledge to

Serious intentions 

Imagination has

Infinite resources

Untapped or unbridled 

And no college courses 

Radiating outwards

Radiating outwards

With the compass point stuck

Stars not more distant the

Universe more untuck

Playing the dealt hand with

All that I can muster

Gain knowledge and wisdom

Not self-filibuster

The answer is live with

The answer is live with

Purpose where there is none

Accept nothingness yet

Grow beneath this bright sun 

The rural butterfly 

Beautiful and unknown 

Thriving and existing 

But not so far from stone

Count beans and loose buttons

Count beans and loose buttons

Word flurries, rain coming

Alive versus living

Creating or summing

To eek out a living

But reeking with abstract

The uncharted waters

Or totals that don’t match

So many hearts beating

So many hearts beating

I must make room to grow

Wildflowers are cropping

Water resources low

Escape totality

Find a nature retreat

Befriend a rural thought

Replenish then repeat

Oceans have no shadow

Oceans have no shadow

Waves cannot offer shade

With trees stopping sunlight

And sand a rawhide suede

And air like a garment

Wrapped shoulder to shoulder

With a blue scarf knotted

On a yellow boulder

Looking for something new

Looking for something new

Perhaps it could be old

Or something avant-garde 

A truth that can’t be told

Revive a forgotten

Ah, the gesture you made

Or learn a new subject

Pick up a language aid