Destination was inspired by someone’s poetry lesson that at this moment slips my mind. Regardless, the poet had a tendency to write with a certain style of a run-on sentence, prolonging the poem and connecting each line with an “and”. When writing this poem, I had been writing my western fiction story at the same time. A certain character who is lost within themselves and literally is trying to cope with such a situation. I wrote Destination to exemplify the feeling of confusion that one has when they are lost without a purpose. The use of the run-on sentence and the word “and” kept an atmosphere of uneasiness and uncertainty about the poem. It synergized quite well with the idea of being lost due to its spiraling effect of trouble just compounding on and burying someone with worry. The first stanza details all the worries that the speaker has, highlighting their absolute uncertainty with life and purpose. Its lies within the lines of the first stanza that the speaker is literally lost but by choice. They are struggling with something, whatever it may be, but they want to distance themself from the problem they are going through. Although they are becoming lost in a literal sense, the absence of purpose has caused them to become lost within their own mind. Their confusion looms over them because of this place they used to be in. Said place could be anything but is presumed to be an unhealthy effect on the speaker. The point of becoming lost in a literal sense and getting away from the place that was causing a loss within themself, is in fact a way to take control of one’s purpose. The speaker made a decision to get lost from the unhealthy place they were at. We can realize that this choice to become lost in a literal sense is one made for the benefit of the speaker’s mind.

The second stanza shows how the speaker is gaining relief from leaving. They believe that because they have left that they are now taking control. It is not necessarily a clarity that the speaker is attaining in the second stanza, but they are feeling free to find a place of their own that is beneficial and healthy for their existence. They are still lost, wandering and searching for a place that will release their mind from being lost. This is a determination, a certain feeling that motivates them to free themself from what has been a blight. Just the notion of getting away from a bad place and diving into the unknown in search of a better place is empowering enough for the speaker to continue on rather than just suffer. Hopefulness has invigorated the speaker, given them a purpose that they were searching for, and perhaps finding a purpose that will stay with them for life.