The Answer is Blowing in the Wind

(Photo Credit: Lea Boutrois)

Though I have not lived a full life,
And I have yet to accrue the proper strife,

The space between electric emotional events
Grows, widens, requires increasing patience.

Ambition can’t wait, but creative output blows
Like a falling leaf riding Kansas winds, October snows,

Where the crisp rushing gusts continue leaf’s journey,
Unsettled, revived by the brisk yearning…