Nutrition, shelter, offspring: these propel
us all, we know, for so the experts speak.
Now some add altered consciousness, and tell
us getting high’s another goal we seek.
But are these all? Are we that simply framed
and limited, by instincts, like a brute?
And are these drives reality, or named
beside the truth, with “height” a substitute?

I submit creation as our goal.
In this we image God, and celebrate
all artistry. To pick the word or tone
that captures what I live contains my whole
delight today. Select, and thus create,
to learn what else only in heaven’s known.