Line

What’s your line?
I’m asking –
Is it your words
Or your career?
Is it your hitting on me
Or line of work I hear?
They say the shortest distance
Is a line between two points
It also might be chatter
As we visit all the joints
Is it the rope one clings to
As in a mountain climb,
Or is it the walk one takes
In the struggle for sublime?

© Lucille Falk Miller
~December 2, 2003