To have a vision, night and day,
of something you yearn to do
Is to follow it whate'er the odds
- to your own self be true.

It matters not what people think
because it is your goal,
And determined ambition for what you do
will target not half, but whole.

An innocent, life-long craving transports
happiness, supreme -
Each step you take is another rung
on the ladder to a dream.

Poem by © Joan Adams Burchell
Used with permission.