Poems: Healing The Void Within

At some time or the other

We all encounter a hollowness

A nagging, deep-rooted need

Which we describe differently

And like most things lost

In translation

We begin to believe:

‘I need someone to love me

To have someone who belongs to me

To whom I matter most

And can count on for eternity.’

But if we examine such ‘needs’

How clear it is to see

That we have shifted

From love and presence

To ownership, demands, insistence

Entitlement, control, monopoly,

Feeding our false hope

Of everlasting security.

Misunderstanding our need

To be true to ourselves

To remember the reality

Of what is constant and unchangeable,

What is transient and illusory…

What is self, who is the other

And where does this loneliness

Really want to take me.

How much would change

If we said instead:

‘What I am looking for

Is a way to remember and live

The  warm assurance

Of being

At peace

With my self and all that I be.’ 

Where, then, would one direct

One’s time, attention and energy?

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