Fulfillment Song,

by Romain Thiery in France

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“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.” Lao Tzu

 

Purpose and fulfilment are not places you can enter like a cathedral hall

they do not belt out tunes in choirs

they are but a whisper

soft like a piano

nudging shyly on the arms of men

as children hoping for their way

purpose cannot be held with enclosed hands

it is a vase in which we choose to place the flowers

the ones we picked in the meadow just for you

and when it is broken

the flowers lay wilted

remember that my friend.

Places of the Heart

Art by helldivo at DeviantArt 

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. 

~George Moore

Emptiness has a way of holding a heavy weight within the places of the heart

Like a sinker on a fishing lure

Taking broken men down broken roads

Where all the paved highways lead to every gravel path

It is there that they seek some kind of shelter

but loneliness rips through every room like fire

leaving behind only the silence of rubble in its wake

we lose ourselves in many ways

trying to hold up bridges that are not ours to cross

forgetting where we came from

we head to the same place that took our father so far away

 lost is a place that cannot be found on any map

 we stumble upon it blindly with empty hands

for all the mapped directions that lead to somewhere else

have long since been left in drawers full of other things we never needed

I searched for you in the eyes of others

Wanting to never lose the memory of your smile

It was in that place of longing

Where loss plants the deepest roots

And no matter how high up the tree you climb

It is hard to see beyond that place

It took me years to discover that simple truth

Trying to find my way to you

I lost my own direction

Until I realized

You were already there

In the reflection of my own eyes.

© Carrie Van Horn 2020