Poem December 5, 1983 Issue

A question of goals

CAROL CHAPIN LINDSEY

If we could achieve
any goal—
anything in the world—
what would it be?
To build a city,
feed a starving nation,
write a masterpiece?

Even then,
wouldn't we still need
something much simpler,
yet deeper and more difficult:
to learn humility
and the love that heals,
to know God
and have no other gods—
to understand?

CAROL CHAPIN LINDSEY

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