Certainty

A poem about certainty.

A yellow cab driver is yelling past me at me doesn't know my name.
I'm catapulting crashing into a great unknown.
Running sinking pushing towards certainty.
Connecting hearts, pieces, moving parts.
I'm purposefully putting one foot in front of the other.
Pounding the proverbial pavement.
Practicing being present eyes wide.
But dreaming of peaceful places, dancing by myself perhaps.
With moss growing on rocks as old as earth.
there are rocks everywhere.
I'm listening to the wind blow, flow like heart beats.
Humming a sometimes melancholy tune that is familiar and uncertain.
And I am choosing optimism.
To be a brazen and beautiful audacious girl.
Even if optimism is only an insight.


CertaintyCer"tain*ty\, n.; pl. Certainties. [OF. certainet['e].]
1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain.
The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. --Fisher Ames.
2. A fact or truth unquestionable established.
Certainties are uninteresting and sating. --Landor.
3. (Law) Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity.