April 6, 2022
For the longest time, I couldn’t find her.
I called and searched and queried.
“Have you seen my Spark?” I said,
“My Joy?”
Deaf ears.
It was as if she’d never existed.
(Was it that she’d never existed?)
“I can’t find my Meaning,” I cried,
“My Reason for Being!”
Blank stares.
No one could tell me where to turn
To find this thing I yearned for,
The one I had a right to own.
“Where did you go?” I called.
Echoes.
And so I stopped and waited.
(What else could I do?)
Until the Forest grew around me
And no more light broke through the trees.
Until the paths were overgrown
And all direction disappeared.
Until the darkness swallowed me
And all I saw was nothing.
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Thematically linked posts: The Way You Know (lyrics).