The Very Truth of You

Well, isn't THAT a search,

a quest, a journey,

a lifetime's task:

the very truth of you.

The intensity of the hunt

changes

as you proceed through your life.

Some years it has so little importance

that you aren't even aware that

there's something to seek.

You simply go about your daily tasks

as if they alone constituted living.

Other years

(and am I wrong to say that

there are more of them the older you get?)

you chase that self—

the very truth of you—

as if your life depended on it.

As it may.

And then there are those few,

blessed from birth,

who know their very truth

from the beginning

and who can thus devote their lives

not to searching

but to simple gratitude.

 

 

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