Reflections: Why You Go

On The Day Before Departure

Is why you go to wonder why you go?

Saying goodbye to fond and yonder friends

I see that this too is one of the ends

Of the Earth. “Bon voyage!” they cry.  I know.

My wander-severed self newly aglow

Illumines both, and somehow it depends,

This bond, this heart-home, now the journey sends

Us separate, on just this leave to grow.

I need to see the world to see the world,

Open my habit-eye, knotted and knurled,

With visions that enliven and astound.

The globe has these.  But lo, the road is curled,

A shining circle homeward onward bound.

Let’s both be happy that the world is round.