John Paul Caponigro
Child
We had a bipolar winter;
Greenland at the beginning,
Antarctica at the end.
I see your photographs and drawings.
I hear you tell your stories.
I ask you what you make of our adventures,
concerned about your future.
It had a profound effect on me.
I feel so insignificant.
Does anything I do really matter?
If so, to who, for how long?
It takes the pressure off.
I feel free to live the life I need
to live, no matter what.
Bio
John Paul Caponigro is an internationally collected visual artist and published author. He leads unique adventures in the wildest places on earth to help participants make deeper connections with nature and themselves creatively. View his TEDx and Google talks at https://www.johnpaulcaponigro.art/poetry/.