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There Is Nothing There To Search For
By Clyde E. Gumbs

 

Why is it that I’m here at all

What is the point of me

In a world of pure insanity

What is it I’m supposed to be

 

Searching for the things so far beyond

What I have known and seen

Searching for the things to let me know

What it’s all supposed to mean

 

Perhaps if I could find the perfect answers

That would finally satisfy my mind

Perhaps if I could finally get it right

I would not always feel so blind

 

Perhaps if I found the right techniques

Perhaps the perfect strategy

Perhaps if I was so much better

Than it may be possible to be

 

Perhaps if I could find the perfect things

For me to have and also do

Perhaps the perfect thing to be

That would satisfy both me and you

 

Perhaps if I found the perfect people

With whom I always loved to be

People who I could always count on

And embraced my failings happily

 

Perhaps if I could find the perfect place

Where it was truly safe to be

A land where I could be accepted

And people served all selflessly

 

Is there any point at all to this

A search for what seems can never be

Is this hopeless, endless, pointless, quest

My lifetime destiny

 

No wonder I have sought escape

From this pure insanity

What could ever seem more pointless

Than to seek what cannot be

 

I can feel the utter pointlessness

Of seeking a me that I must find

As if there is something to become

That could really live within my mind

 

I can feel the utter pointlessness

Of proving my validity

As if to be alive requires

Something for me to try to be

 

I can feel the utter pointless

Of my inauthenticity

As if being other than myself

Is something I could truly be

 

I can feel the utter pointlessness

Of judging what I see and feel as wrong

As if living inside these judgments

Could be a place where I’d belong

 

Could I give up the endless quest

The search for what I cannot find

Could I surrender to my soul

Give up attempts to live inside my mind

 

Could I give up being driven

To live inside a mental sham

Could I merely use my intellect

As I express that which I am

 

Could I give up everything I’ve known

To live my life as if I’m free

Could I accept the person that I’ve been

And be what I was born to be

 

Perhaps I need absolutely nothing

To be all there is for me to be

Perhaps there is nothing there to search for

To be what I was born to be

 
 
 
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