For today’s prompt, take the phrase “Follow (blank),” replace the blank with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles include: “Follow the Leader,” “Follow Me on Twitter,” “Follow Your Heart,” and/or “Follow the Light.” So many things to follow or not.
You Know
Follow, will we?
your lead
– you always lead –
out of the body
out of the story
out of the beating needs
that seem to come from the heart
or the blood
– the blood we shared
away from the bones
that have always worked together
to propel us through space
with purpose
out of space itself perhaps,
and, I suspect, out of purpose as well.
What, then, was purpose?
Follow, will we?
Away into what
will we follow you?
And how soon?
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