Lizzy Burnam 🐞

This life has stinging joys to give 
and dragging grief to follow it 
but what a thrill it is to live 
with a heart that can feel all of it 

Her faithful beat is certain though 
the head sometimes betrays
and pours until it nearly drowns
the droplets with the waves 

Still, with mud on these old shoes 
from every trail I’ve charted
the light I’d gladly share with you
the dark I’d never barter 

To answer every question of 
the meaning of/the purpose:
Your charge is simple—just go on 
and blaze below the surface