Breaking

. . . the purpose is beyond the end you figured, 

and is altered in fulfillment.  -- T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"

BREAKING

The purpose breaks

open.  Waves break 

on rocks, moved by 

a purpose they need 

not know. And I am 

brought to a moment 

of knowing, effortless 

and timely as the pebbles 

at my feet, receiving 

their shape from the sea.