MISSION STATEMENT

One day all the stray

and unspoken musings

will come into fine focus

like the light of the sun on a dry leaf.

They will ink themselves across a page

left to right, left to right

with a grammar, a syntax

and a rhetoric that moves like

the hooves and nostrils of a stampede.

This is a sentence you will write.

How much longer

can you put off writing it?

How much longer

can you keep us from reading it?

Make today be the day

the censors are silenced,

the day you dispatch yourself

as the emissary of a statement

only you can make, a mission

only you can commission.