Want

September 5, 2024

The philosophers declared: We can’t really choose what we want.

Passion, wearing a robe crafted by goddesses, of an unimaginable fire-orange color, etches treasure maps in my mind, while

Reason, in dirty rags, shackled by the ankle at birth, observes, imagines grain by grain, shaping a sand castle of luck.

To fall after fall, not fearing fear, stumbling through a uniquely crooked path drawn on the beach, walk the walk towards the End.