The Call to Adventure

Adventure is out there.

I can hear it whispering my name.

Can you hear it/
Whispering like a lover?
Yes, Adventure, I hear you.

But we both know you’re just tempting me.

You are drawing me out of this comfortable profitable life.

I should plug my ears.
I should turn away.

I should swivel round, cover my ears and sing just like a child.

But you tempt me.

You make my mouth water.

You make my eyes widen.

You make my body fill with electricity.

It’s not that I don’t want you,

Quite the opposite.

I can’t want you.

I can’t want the wind in my hair, a song in my heart and my fee on the road.

I need to be here.

I need to be in the moment.

I need roots so when the time comes I can reach these wooden arms to the sky..

I need a foundation so these spiraling towers of this castle will stand tall.

I need to breathe, fill these red blood cells with oxygen before they journey through this body filling every cell.

Adventure, I can hear you.

I see you whining at the door.

And my dear I know.

I know you just want me to come out.

Come out and play for just a little while.

But I pinky promise.

I cross my heart hope to die promise.

I will visit soon enough.

When the sun is high and the day is long I will visit.

I will visit, but I cannot stay.

I have to leave but when I can,

When these roots have grown, the foundation has been built, my lungs are filled

I will come.

I will come to stay as soon as I can.

My dear you know I love you.

I love you and I will come to stay as soon as I can.