En Route - Kara Stricker

[Larry Robinson]

En Route


This poem is for you who gaze up 
from the rooftops

hammers resting in hands,
for the souls that don’t count
stars,

whose glowing faces darken 
when they walk away from the computer,

for you who look up at the sun and forget
it, too, is here for a brief moment,

it, too, has not arrived to its final destination.

And should the bright memory of some star 
burn through the stratosphere 

and catch your gaze as it hurls itself towards
some new land or sea,

your presence - as you are right now -
burns with the same force of God.

You who are alive and not yet arrived.

      - Kara Stricker

All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking happiness for others.
  - Shantideva