on the desires of youth

Youth: I want to live well, like a bull

charging into the moment, the electricity of motion

I want to live like fire, contagious

consumed

spreading.

Sage: it all comes back to fundamental questions

Freedom is found in asking, seeking the meanings

that populate the heart, direct the will, guide the emotions

it is about what you love and how you love it

and happiness

rarely asked, even rarer is it pondered

people learn much about numbers

and words, but little about the hidden language

of the heart

Youth: I question question, I speak a challenge to authority

I say that was has come before must give way

To what is to come, I say change

Sage: you seek partially well

and partially a path to pain and confusion, there is a wisdom in questioning

among the Spaniards, there is a habit of putting

the mark before the sentence

upside down as if to suggest

one should enter into the words

with an expectation

this expectation is a deep desire

the longing for the all, the urge towards union

look at the desire, see the longing of the heart

note its hunger

Youth: But I don’t want to hunger, I want to be satisfied

Sage: The heart that has learned about its hunger finds satisfaction.

It rests

in its consistent longing.