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Radar

Where is truth, and where are solutions?
Do they live somewhere in seclusion,
hard to find, and only through some
great quest? Or are they hidden
in plain sight, not for mere mortals
to see or to understand until they
arrive at some level of enlightenment?
Do I need to be a free mason to see them?
Are they locked away in some room,
a penthouse accessible only by
a treacherous spiral staircase,
and then at the top behind a heavy door
to which only one man holds the key?
Are they password protected? Encrypted?
Because though I toil and search
high and low, I have never found anything
like a perfect truth or absolute solution
to anything. Still I forge ahead.
Still I go on searching until the buzzer sounds
to tell me my time for searching has expired.

© 2014 Nicholas Emeigh

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Notes: This poem was written on Thursday, February 6, 2014.  It is an inquiry as to the existence of absolute truth and absolute solutions, and even though I can't see them readily, I keep on searching for them.  Maybe one day I'll find them.  Maybe they're harder to find the harder you look.

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    • Poetry - Entire Collection >
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          • 4 a.m. in Beantown
          • About The Way You Look In This Photo
          • Airborne
          • All About Me
          • Amazing Motherhood
          • An Ant's Heartbeat
          • Angry, Angrier, Angriest
          • Antiquated
          • Art of Coasting, The
          • Autumn Leaves
        • B >
          • Bad Touches
          • Baggage
          • Bar Lighting
          • Behold This Love I've Laid to Rest
          • Benevolent God, A
          • Birth of a Generation
          • Blowing Smoke
          • Blue Balloon
          • Bohemians
          • Breakfast
          • Burn
          • Busy Museum
        • C >
          • Calico Waves
          • Carried
          • Caulk
          • Chapbook
          • Cocoon
          • Cold
          • Contortionist, The
          • Conundrum
          • Courage In Faith
          • Cowboys and Kings
        • D-E >
          • Daytime Nightmares
          • Doe
          • Don't Tell
          • Down Deep
          • Dreamer, The
          • Dreams Of A Real Life
          • Easter '94-'14
          • Easy Street Wasn't Paved
          • End of the World, The
          • Ever-Autumn Town
          • Everyone
        • F-G >
          • Family
          • Fear of Heights
          • First Fall Harvest
          • Footprints
          • Forecasting
          • Fragile
          • Friends
          • Fucked
          • Funeral For Me and You, A
          • Grandparents Day
          • Grounding Exercise
          • Growing Up
        • H-J >
          • Haiku on Working
          • Half The Man
          • Heaven
          • High Wire Walker
          • Him
          • Homestead
          • I Am Cold Turkey
          • If
          • Imaginary Friends
          • Instant Safety: Add Water & Stir
          • Interview
          • Iridescence
          • I Still Dream of You
          • It's A Funny Thing Being Lonely
          • Just Answering a Question
        • K-M >
          • The Key
          • King of Marigolds
          • Lost Souls
          • Love As Such
          • Love Song
          • Lube
          • Machine Dreams
          • A Makeshift Prayer
          • Maniac
          • Manifesto
          • Masks
          • Maybe Account, The
          • May Twenty Third
          • Money
          • Mother's Day
          • Muse
          • Musing on a Hunt
          • My Mother's Eyes
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          • No Fun
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          • On Norman Mailer's Death
        • P-Q >
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          • Party People
          • Perfume
          • Personal Wealth
          • Philadelphia
          • Pity Party
          • Plan, A
          • Please Leave the Memories
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          • Present Company Excluded
          • Pride It Was And Dignity
          • Puppy Love
          • Quack
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          • Reconciliation
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          • Risk
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          • Sex, Fast.
          • Shell
          • She Doesn't Hold a Candle
          • Signature
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          • Spirit Specialist
          • Spring
          • Still Life With Butter Dish
          • Studio System
          • Sup
          • The Surgeon
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          • Teacher
          • Thank God, It Was Only A Dream
          • These Voices
          • They
          • They Say I'm Crazy
          • This Doesn't Rhyme
          • A Time Before Dying
          • Toxic Friends
          • Trademark
          • Treadmill
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          • Under Bed Delivery
          • Underground Reverie
          • An Understanding
          • Unearthly
          • Untitled
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          • Untitled People
          • Untitled Sadness
          • Utopian Melodrama
        • V-Z >
          • Verse For A Death Chamber
          • Volley
          • War
          • Warming Up To Change
          • Weathered Hands
          • We the Depressed
          • What It's Like to Look at Me
          • What Would You Have Done With Me?
          • Who Can Say?
          • You, Me, and He
          • The Young Narcissists
    • SoundCloud Poetry Readings
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