find an answer

I look at the clock.
see
the hour
that it is.
the incessant
motion
of the second hand.
time to go.
to leave.
to wander.
to find an answer
not in a book,
or
in the words of
well
meaning friends
who worry
about me. there's
something else
out there, waiting
to be embraced,
to tell me
sweetly, everything
is fine,
come home.