crowded buses
Stuttering at the strangeness of a stranger's questions, I become unable to answer the slightest queerie.
Caught off-guard in my want to be part of the background, I have been spotted unendurably pained.
We clothe ourselves in countless layers to keep out the shards of light desperate to pierce the impervience.
We ply ourselves with sugar and alcohol, and countless other drugs to numb our systems, yet cry out "free me from dispairity!"
Like you, I am shadowed and held deep within (beneath) myself.
Sand underfoot.
I am unaware of so many of those around me yet cling to the need for company and attachment.
In Buddhism, we learn that suffering comes from attachment and desire and only when we free ourselves of this can we be wholly pure and free of suffering.
For me, there is a hole in every belief system, a piece I scrutinize and analyze and pick apart to see what purpose it has, if any. Many see this as a negative quality or habbit, I think it means i am simply unsatisfied with
the way things are and strive to change. I have not yet decided if this is good or bad -- it just
is for now.
Perhaps I should rather strive to accept that which I view unsatisfactory.
Perhaps i am wrighted where I stand.
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