of searching and meaning

We searched the world around for meaning.
What we sought we found,
But meaning lost its meaning

We veiled our emotion with mixed metaphors, fancy words and delicious phrasing.
So caught in the delivery,
we forgot what we were delivering.

And it’s all superficial

We sought out those deep and stoic
Sat at the feet of self important
Prophets, philosophers, poets

So caught up in who they were!
We couldn’t see who they were
(people are just people are just people)

And so, we left feeling full for a while

At the sight of food, we realized we were empty
At the sight of God, we realized we’d been wanting

And He walked among us,
Regular me and regular you.

Our words escape, don’t fit to what we feel!
Collapse!
What we took so long to make breaks under the weight of truth so real.
(rebuild)

Their tries to lure us back with greater words and slogans fade into thin background
Deaf to them, we hear
Eyes open and watering, sight anew
This is it!

Bathed in light, the curtain tore

Happy to be wrong –
Happy that wise men were fools,
happy that who we knew not we sought found us out,
happy that the full were empty,
happy that the secure were wanting,
Happy that the scarcity of meaning didn’t mean that it didn’t exist, it just didn’t exist apart from Him.

The very words of our hearts He read a aloud
Meaning!

There’d be no more traveling.

Done.

Full.

Tired, we rested with there with the One who loved us. Fulfillment found.



- by Melissa N. Davis