Poems

PURPOSE

Purpose

What is it

Why is it necessary

Another one of those things

The old man ponders

As sip after sip

Drains the old coffee cup

Emptiness resolve

By refilling the cup

Then what is life

Filling the cup

Or emptying it

The old man shuffles

Into the kitchen

Refills the cup

Shuffles back

Smiles

And begins to sip

HOPE

Hope

Hoping for hope

A way to cope

Maybe It’s that know

It’s that know

At the end of the rope

On which…