Note: This is the beginning of something. I know what the end will be, but not how I will get there, much like the focus in the title. So be patient it will grow as my journey runs its course.

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Maps are a kind of picture

They show us where we are

Or where we’ve been

Yet, they can be so much more

Perhaps you want to know

how to reach a destination

or maybe find a destination

never imagined or sought.

Maybe you want to recall

a journey in the past

where it led and what

you found at the end

Old friends found anew

family not seen in years

inspiration or healing

always an adventure.

Maps may be simple sketches

Or complex projections

of a place or a time

even a realm of pure imagination

maps are locations compared

places visited, feeling like home

and places never seen

Explorations and adventures

to be had

revealing unknown treasures

ideas to be shared

or ties to be found

linking past with present

and then to future

Mariners sailed past the edge

Cartographers recorded the paths

And the wonders found

Yet leaving many paths to be found

Some charted others

off the edge and into the unknown

Islands of promise or fate

to be encountered if brave enough

Mysteries solved by finding

and linking clues into a path

reaching the solution… perhaps

saving the day... with a map