Who Am I....?

[CdnReader]

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Who am I...?
But a weary traveller
Searching for a path
That has no beginning or end.
Where shall I start?

Patience guides my steps.

So many others
Have gone this way before....
Did they reach their goal?
I see the evidence of their passing,
Crushed leaves, dislodged branches,
Boughs bent heavy 'neath the weight of their burden.
Birds scatter and depart
As I approach.

Wisdom brought me here.

I come in search of simple answers
to complex questions.
Should I define my existence
Only by what is within?
Where do I end, and where do you begin?
Can answers be contained within this earthly body?
I think not.

Life knows no boundaries.

Come with me, my friend.
Enter me. Become one with me.
Allow the answers to wash through your soul.
Just as the surf washes the sand clean,
So too should you be content.

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[Sweets America]

WOW!! :banana: :banana:
What a great poem!! (I know I say that about all of your poems but this one is really great!)

I love how this one deals with life, paths, and wondering where we are going. And in the meantime, knowing that what we experience has been experienced by the whole mankind. I love the imagery in this poem. I also love how it deals with the complexity of defining the self, which you express very well in the lines 'Where do I end, and where do you begin?'. It is true that we often have difficulties to delimit the frontiers of the self, because our self is actually often melted into what we have internalized from the others, and from the ones we love especially.
It can be scary sometimes to lose oneself in another being, but in the meantime the experience is wonderful.
Excellent poem!!

[CdnReader]

Thanks SOOO much, Sweets. I very much enjoy reading your thoughts.... :)

[PrinceMyshkin]

Lovely, as that French chick just noted! I especially like


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I see the evidence of their passing,
Crushed leaves, dislodged branches,
Boughs bent heavy 'neath the weight of their burden.
Birds scatter and depart
As I approach.

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I come in search of simple answers
to complex questions.

That's the rub, isn't it? But possibly, when the "simple answer" doesn't come, it's because we haven't yet refined the question to the essence of it?

[CdnReader]

Dunno 'bout you, Jer, but I don't even know what the question is!!! :alien:

[Pendragon]

You know, I came down the poem watching the play of the words in the stanzas leading up to a profound single line statement, then that last stanza left me with the feeling that the statement ending the poem was never said. I loved the poem, don't take me wrong, I just thought there would be a power closer line, I am not sure what it should be.... I have Kansas' song: "Dust In the Wind" playing in my head after reading your poem, "All we are is dust in the wind...everything is dust in the wind.

The last verse of the song goes like this:

"So don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all of your money won't a single moment buy--
Dust in the wind,
All we are is dust in the wind--
Everything is dust in the wind--
Dust in the wind..."

I'm a little strange, but I'm used to it. Anyway, good poem, but think about a closing line...

Pen

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[CdnReader]

Pen, are you telling me you're not content that it ended with "so too should you be content"??? (hehehe.....) :p

I've re-read a few times, and I think I see your point, and will ponder that idea. The funny thing is I know I had a couple more lines there at one point, and deleted them as superfluous, and now can't remember for the LIFE of me what they were. Hmmmmm......

Thanks for your comments, as usual, my friend. Greatly appreciated.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Dunno 'bout you, Jer, but I don't even know what the question is!!! :alien:

Options:

Why am I here?
Do you know the way to Santa Fe?
Why am I having such a bad hair day?
How do men work?
Do men work?
How much is that doggie in the window (the one with the waggly-tale)?
Who really killed JFK?
Is htere a Dog?

[CdnReader]

...and an even bigger and more important question...

What would I do without you, PM? ;)