Will To Question

Now it may be an animal caught out in the rain,
or perhaps a silly idea someone’s clinging to.
These are two things it could be if a person is ruled out.
New money? Would someone personify currency then?
Each dollar, dime and shiny penny could be animate.
Climb among the highest thoughts like you are in the attic,
engage in mental exercise to find what it could be.
Something that is not a person needs examined, no less.
Some such thing not even human is for poetic dreams.
A tree, a stem, a raging river or a cup of tea,
red roses with the breath of spring, perhaps a falling star.
I like the thought of finding something that’s not human. I
like exploring, letting those possibilities prevail.
Yellow leaves of late September can also be, I say.

Around the world we sail in wonder with a plaintive plea.
Person or no, what we can find is treasure to unwrap.
Examining is how we find the truth of all we live.
Reaching out to nature’s bounty sets many hearts astir.
So doubts of any personhood is almost meaningless.
Originating in the very core of to and fro,
nexus is what we achieve when we have will to question.

21 Lines
Double Acrostic:
“Not Necessarily a Person”
Writer’s Cramp Co-Winner
10-16-17