A Delicacy

Survey all your interests.
That may take quite a time.
Then pick the ones that haunt you
and ask yourself why
the past halts the present
or the other way around.
You’re forced to resent
you’re stuck on the ground.
Not knowing you take a guess
out of the above or the bottom below.
And get down to basics
What you’re made of
What will last.
Or punt from the goal line
and call it just a game
played very seriously
for who knows what.
Then go back to the checker board
and play chess in advance
Like geese in the sky
obey honks on the road.
Leave the rest to become
Toad-ala-Mode.