The Other Side

Dots for returns.
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Here I sit and think,
In a darkened room filled with light;
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Wishing for an answer,
The meaning of my life.
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Is love but a game,
Played with basic desires,
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Simple lust and pure greed?
Or is there something more,
Something I can’t quite see?
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Could some god have the answer,
If some being truly exists?
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Could it be naught but a joke,
This life that I live?
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Is it selfish to want,
To be someone’s only?
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Is it wrong to wish to see,
A person who cares for me;
And cares for me only?
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I’d do the same,
I’d give them my all,
Anything they wanted,
At only a call.
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Deadness I feel,
Gripping my heart;
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Confusion I feel,
Destroying my brain;
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Endless questing carried out,
By my soul ever untamed…
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I see in the eyes of others,
These feelings, the same.
Struggling through life,
With no one to blame.
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I’d help if I could,
Could that be my purpose?
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I scream for a cause,
But the darkness is all that I see;
And it gives no answers.
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The darkness is in me,
Somedays I see it in you.
I think that you feel,
Some of the same things I do;
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I wish I could help you,
But I guess I’m not the one.
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I thought you could help me,
But maybe you aren’t the one.
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I search for the answer,
Though it ever eludes me;
Slips through my fingers,
And leaves me sobbing.
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So I smoke a cigarette,
And I try not to think;
But my mind will not stop.
It wanders the darkness,
Looking for the answer.
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I feel robbed;
I believed I was so close.
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My soul still tells me,
That an answer is there;
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My heart still compells me,
Says many answers are there;
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And my head just says stop,
No answer is anywhere…
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Maybe being at peace,
Is when all three can agree;
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When your soul just gives up,
And lets your brain rest at ease,
And your heart runs your life,
No answers it seeks,
Just going on dumbly,
Quite pointlessly.
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Maybe the strife,
Is what makes us alive
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How unlike humankind,
Having peace seems.

chris1203 answered:

Wow, I LOVE this poem. You’ve done a great job. I really identified with everything that you wrote and I think that other people will, too.

justontime answered:

This is an excellent piece of writing, I think a lot of people will identify with it.

deltic1 answered:

I always enjoy reading your poetry, this one is very well written and thought provoking.

atula answered:

quite thought provoking….I loved especially the …Maybe being at peace,
Is when all three can agree;
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When your soul just gives up,
And lets your brain rest at ease,
And your heart runs your life…..

Life is the struggle of finding this answer…of making all three agree…