"Find your passion,"
they say,
"and go for it!"
(As if it were that simple).
Who are these
congenital optimists
dispensing advice
as if from God's lips
to our ears?
Why do they not understand
that for those who think
too much for their own good,
who wonder "what's it all about?",
"passion" is a word spoken
in some foreign language?
In the end, their advice
leaves some of us
feeling hopelessly deficient.

Eileen Auger
3/3/11