A CRY FOR FREEDOM © 2008

The answers are not within me,

I am merely a gaze, a reflection,

Of someone who traverses the world thus,

With a profound and complex feeling.

I walk the world discontented,

With eyes that observe, but do not find,

The answers I seek, vaguely,

In faces and lives that confront.

I am like a passing shadow,

Leaving no trace, marking no ground,

Bearing the weight of a scant soul,

That seeks meaning in immense solitude.

And, in the end, perhaps this is what I am,

A being in search, lost and absent,

Who, without answers, is left

With the gaze of one who feels discontented.