Force of Your Life

To what is the force of your life directed?
For whom are your energies expended?
What are you building?
Where are you traveling?

Are your time and your talents
Your desire and will
Employed with purpose
Or somewhat murky -
A pipe dream, still?

Is love in the mix?
Does meaning prevail?
Does the earnest blowing
Of worthy thoughts and noble acts
Steadily fill your sail?

"You can do this," don't they say?
"It'll happen somehow, someway."
If you've lived a time,
and thought beyond your nose,
Such wishy washy platitudes
Never gain what you suppose.