Finding Oneself - WordPromptChallenge
The title says all, except the part where I'm particularly extra-fond of this one! Please do let me know if you share my sentiments
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And when you return with your broken heart
They will not stop until you concede:
Yes they'd been right and had told you indeed
And you were a fool for ever having doubted.
They'll tell you again what they did back then:
That it was foolish to look afar,
That everything you could ever be
Has always lain within
They'll say that if you just try enough
To gather the pieces and merge them to one
You'll find that you were never really lost,
That you would find yourself right there
It's so warm and happy and perfectly ideal-
You'd never need anyone then!
To your broken mind and broken soul-
Nothing could ever seem sweeter
But before you lock yourself back in
To the point you feel so alone-
Before you break yourself some more
As you seek that strongman-you
Consider this, please:
You are made of stardust
No life did exist before that first explosion
When the first of the supernovae died
In that burst when we were made
Came the rest of this infinite world too
And if everything in this universe
Hails from that sole moment
Is it so crazy to think that maybe
'Out there' lie our missing pieces?
A little fragment in the musty library
Scattered amidst the pages
A shard laid out by the golden lake
Where the soul finds bliss and harmony
Still another may just roll
Amongst the grains of flour;
The reason that the heart sings out
When you make a messy dough
It follows then - it really must
In places far off float slivers of us
Destinations so remote
That no man will ever know:
One piece is lodged in the distant planets
Throttling through outer space
Another has parked on the wandering comet
Witness to galaxies beyond
Maybe we'll never truly be complete
Maybe we'll never find us fully
But maybe it never really was the point
To forge one lonely island
I think…yes…I do
I really like it this way
This idea, this thought
Of never being 'whole'
This way we can be everywhere
In everything
Spanning infinity
For eternity
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