keep going

she talks longingly
of the peace corps
of digging trenches
handing out care packages
in the mud
to bone thin tribesmen.
she talks about
Africa, the heat,
the animals,
bugs.
how she fell in love
with a woman.
her first woman,
then a man.
and how all three found
each other.
she talks about hunger
and thirst,
and how she still can't find
that thing,
that place
that person, to quench
this endless
journey she stays on.