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How does one find their true purpose in life?
IN PLAIN SIGHT
A passion, a purpose,
a search for life’s meaning
start down this road,
and soon you’re careening.Trying on costumes:
the teacher, the nurse,
the scholar, the artist,
the babe with the purse.Running up hills,
praying in church,
lifting up rocks
all part of the search.Muscle that shovel,
relentlessly dig,
convinced that true purpose
must somehow be big.Search ‘til you can’t,
forced to resign,
look back and see,
it was there all the time.