Why?

Why Do You Think
You Signed Up
for This
Go-Round-the-Sun
a few Dozen Times
on This Spinning
Watery Globe?

Was It Because
Your Celestial Soul
Needed a few Semesters
in some School
of Hard Knocks?

Your Perfect
Eternal
Beingness
Needed a Ph.D in
Fearing
The Love and Light
and Laughter
that Made You
a Fractal of
Its Adoring Self?

You Must Be
Joking.

Perhaps You Need To
Lose Your Mind
in Order to
Remember

Why.

You Wanted to
Make Art.

To Paint
Landscapes of Love
and Make Movies
of Kindness
Wrestling Fear
to the Ground
of All Being.

You Signed Up for
Art School,
Silly.

Take as Many
Classes as
You Wish.

(Photo by Arthur Tseng; UnSplash)