who drives us?

 Curiosity

it little matters how good the vehicle is,

if the driver doesn’t know where to go,

or care to see what’s around the bend,

a vehicle is a tool

to be wielded in pursuit of getting to a “there,”

that draws us out of ourselves

into exploration and the hope of discovery,

sometimes all the driver can think about as motivation

is to be faster than others,

while, to me, I want my driver to be curiosity,

I love to be ignorant because then I can learn,

I love to be intrigued by question

and to play around with different roads to answers,

we are not cats,

the lack of curiosity can kill that within us

that most deserves to be driving.

by Henry H. Walker

March 27, ‘21