Endless, Restless Lover

Keep your soul restless,
don’t stop glancing down the path you didn’t take.

I’ve walked high desert game trails
without any notion of arriving -
signs of Rabbit and Fox,
Juniper offerings, rare Cottonwood stands blessed by
perfumes only these places know how to weave into the breeze,
so honied, ancient, and awakening
you can never convince the uninitiated they exist.

I don’t need to know what I’m yearning for,
just that it keeps me walking,
every step along this snaking way is my yes to the eternal invitation.

Not because I’m wise,
but because I’m still hungry
seduced by this place of becoming.

Endless,
restless
lover.