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Momentarily by Odin Roark How elusive the quest To place oneself in sync Wavelength to wavelength Response to reply So many agendas beg ignoring Those places where integrity remains suspect Where job Marriage Relationships Friends Acquaintances Eye contact Undeserved pleasures Even fantasized harmony Portending confirmation of truth Are often merely layered fears Forged in distrust For lest we forget No one promised answers Even as schemas know no boundaries The road signs always offering direction To the many of want Facilitating few of need They nevertheless remain available Such goes this phenomenon of plans Diagramable life Representation of what might be But rarely is What is intrinsically longed for Yet seemingly uncatchable Like forever morphing mercury Still So desperate are most Clutching to random connection Often without reason That attention from others Is embraced as self-realization Perhaps a venture off the beaten path A bushwhack through the untrammeled past Might beg consideration Where revisiting the child within Will remind how infant outbursts Conveyed rudimentary logic When diaper rash urgency Void of language Save scream and cry Defined simple organics A voicing in search of form So easy to ignore this Time’s simplistic message Reaching back toward the dawn of man When primitive bone and stone Drummed the truth of need Food Shelter Cover When duplicity hadn’t been invented When progress was preserved by raw instinct Today Actuality is in questioned focus Our civilized regression This guised-in-furtherance flight Toward make-believe escape Has jettisoned logic into the abyss of ignorance Manipulating instead today’s lie of norm Into modern truth The hunt will continue Beneath self-created imprisonment To find that somewhere yet to objectify itself That place where slumbers intrinsic reasoning Kept safe by nature’s heartbeat Requires nothing but simple acceptance Of that known simply as Ever available Truth Searching minds continue Trusting consciousness will prevail Even allowing occasional laughter Along the path where delusions entertain… Momentarily