Challenge

 If you start with the observation that life

is a challenge, where do you go from there?

 (I ask the muse…the muse responds)

Go to the labyrinth of the Universities to dig

deeply for the truth only to find the only reward

is tenure?

A simple child is found to be good at baseball.

His life becomes a series of home runs. The only

challenge is the end of his career, and inevitability 

of being nowhere.

The lone monk in a hut by a stream knows the

challenge is his own mind, to be liberated from

the challenge of the instinct for survival.

The challenge of life is unfulfillable if it needs

to be fulfilled.

That is why the monk is content with nothing

but the sound of the water.