The Central Passion

What is the central passion

of a life?

To please mummy & daddy?

To find a home for their furniture?

To found a family of one's own,

possibly a dynasty?

To fill the world with more books

that have no readers

or books that have too many

& kill

too many trees?



What is the passion

that drives us

as the wind drives

a winged seed?

To reproduce ourselves,

then die?

To meet God once

if only in a dream?

To reach enlightenment

through pain

or pleasure?



Or perhaps just

to question

as I am doing now,

& to teach by questioning. . .



Yes- this is both passion

& power

enough.