The Four Quests

The Four Quests

All of human endeavor

All the things we do

All the ways we act

All the things we make

Al the things we think

All the things we say

All the things we feel

All the things we don't say

Can all be gathered into efforts

To satisfy four quests

We strive

To increase our adaptability

To the ceaseless change

In the environment

We quest to find beauty

In ourselves and in the world,

We seek to increase

Our awareness and understanding

Of the Universe around us,

Or the things we do

Are an expression of love

Or a request for love

Now, beauty is only an auspicious

Arrangement of Nature

And adaptability

Is just the knack

Of making auspicious things

Endure through time

And what are understanding

And auspicious arrangements of Nature?

Well, that is what love is---

That and something we each need to feel

That extends far, far beyond

The conveyance of any words

Dewey Dirks