The Point

(Turn on music at the bottom for the full experience)

When do we find it?
Searching and searching
   A lifetime for purpose
Aged paper missing its X

Ask someone
   Oft, they'll pretend there's one answer
   Or they're just the same
       no better - no worse
Faking it, when we're all
    searching and searching
Maddening the Hatter

The answer
   white rabbit
       who won't appear

How human
   asking The Question
Catch-22 meets humanity

Look for why
   and it's only more elusive
Puffs of smoke caught
   in shimmering reflection

Or
  can
    we
      choose?

Creating our own
    if we can't find it
Seeing signs
    whether they're there
        or they're not

Forever before forks
   Here, mud stuck as immobility for transportation

Maybe choice is overrated

Maybe it doesn't have to be 
  mutually exclusive
All or nothing
  in our glass castles

Why even over think?

Like the fortune cookie
  Telling me I need not a safety net
  Because I'm already flying
Do I decide what that means?
Does that make it any more right or wrong?

Still, we read the tea leaves
Assigning definitions
Becoming the puddle the hole was made for

Predestined by a maker...
   except it's just
       Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig
       Isaac Norman Henkle
       Emmanuel Ambroise Diggs

Worse, will it be
  Forever at the horizon
    Never grasped
Like a joke whose punch line
   Is never delivered

Answer in any form
   and you fit the buyer - custom modeled
In higher power, hidden talent

Life is just a would-you-rather
  Pick-your-own-adventure 
     kind of random
  Spend-ten-years-trying, 
     dead-end-now-you're-nowhere
     all-to-figure-what-you-don't-want
         kind of chaos
Where we all choose to seek elsewhere 
  but that never really mattered
Except to us
  if we had the courage -
   courage to discover it in ourselves

So, the question should be
   Why do I care?
      And there, shall I finally find
      the tip of life's iceberg?