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by Anna Oren | |
Published on: Apr 24, 2004 | |
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Type: Poetry | |
https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=3261 | |
Confusion just manages Manages to find me It always exists In my life Never gives me a break Like my mom Never gives me a break I just wish once Maybe I could have just one One chance One understanding moment One connection Where everything feels Right No, not just right Perfect Everything feels perfect Perfect like a sunset No, not just a sunset A sunset shared with another All I want are shared sunsets Understanding moments Where everything is perfect To feel closeness A connection To be loved Loved in return I have the ability to love But am I capable Capable of being loved Of sharing a sunset Of fitting in Yet being myself Am I deserving? Will I find that one chance? The one understanding moment? Destiny It shapes my life No break is planned in this ongoing turmoil Always working Striving toward perfection On the path to love Success, understanding Common moment of mankind The purpose of culture Of differences Of class distinctions Why do ethnicities matter? They should matter Differences should be cherished But where is the passion, the patience, the peace When will it stop? The confusion that follows us all? One moment can tie the world together Just one sunset that all can see All can connect to Not a common view but an understanding scene Where perfection is evident No killing No hate Relaxation A soft sunset to calm the storm The storm of tension Confusion Existing at home, at school, in life The world Like a sunset Searching for that moment When everything is perfect No confusion is found No confusion is hiding Just perfection A place A place in the food chain of a jungle That consumes innocence A simple sunset To bring it all back If only for one moment But where can we find it? How can I seize it? Keep it forever? Can it fit in a pocket? What exactly do I seek? Answers Patient and global answers Water, disease, hunger Love Who can answer these questions? Can I? Can you? Can anyone really answer or solve The confusion that follows Haunting, concealing the one thing I look for Compassion A comfort found in the sky A comfort found in a heart But the questions always haunt Who am I? Is what I do chosen for me? Or by me Life What about my life Should I live like this? Are these who my friends should be? What defines me? Should my grades be better? Or has my excellence been reached How about love Am I supposed to discover romance? Or should it discover me Am I supposed to be isolated? Should I be working towards world peace? Maybe a Nobel Prize? Or math, what about science? Should I be wearing that white lab coat? Should I be a burn out, a bum, or a bore? Am I the unfortunate or the fortunate? Experience makes one think But what about the people who don’t think? What happens to them? Should I be thinking? Or should I just be searching For the moment of perfection Where I find all the answers? Maybe I’ll never find every one? Experience brings moments Combined to create one Climax of the story The turning point in the journey of life Winding and bending the road to all answers Perhaps never ending Who really knows what, who, why I am? The next stepping-stone leads me In the direction of Destiny All of the answers To all of the wonders Do I really know as much I think I know? Maybe I don’t really know anything Maybe I know too much If you see me somewhere just let me know I’m looking for myself I’ve been set on a journey A journey to question, wonder and puzzle I have patience I have courage I have devotion I am on the road to one One sunset Just one shared sunset But when will I reach my horizon. « return. |