-- Looking For and Finding --
By John Herlihy
Looking for meaning in things that have no meaning;
Finding no meaning in things that have real meaning.
Looking for answers when asking wrong questions;
Finding true answers when asking the right questions.
Looking for love where there is no true emotion;
Finding love where there is depth to the emotion.
Looking for hidden riches amid the travails of poverty;
Finding true poverty amid all the falsity of riches.
Looking for hope in the deep well of despair;
Finding despair when we lose the dream of hope.
Looking for certainty amid the doubts of uncertainty;
Finding uncertainties amid the wealth of certainty.
Looking for clarity in the face of overwhelming mystery;
Finding mystery inside our physical world of clarity.
Looking for the known lying hidden in the unknown;
Finding the unknown far beyond what is known.
Looking for anyone with whom to share a secret;
Finding a secret you would not share with just anyone.
Looking for the words to spark the flint of the poem;
Looking for a poem whose words strike fire in flint.
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Copyright ©John Herlihy
Friday 16 June 2023
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I find that looking gets, much easier, or much harder, every day. Sometimes I can find some fact about something like, the lyrics of the song from just a phrase in an instant, I really like that service. But earlier today I looked into a problem I had with a billing increase, actually getting to talk to someone and spending two hours changing my plan, only to find that looking for my evening channel lineup no longer exists and when I tried to fix it with a live chat agent, the chat window failed and I was redirected to the robot AI guy that asked me to write short questions so it could give me dumb answers, round and round for an hour. Still looking…
Ron