Finding Meaning in Suffering

Emotions
Written By U.M.B.

I Searched

And I Searched.

 

Submerged in suffering

I drowned ever more,

With every passing effort to defuse the agony.

Trapped in a mental quicksand,

Desperation met despair;

And I searched frantically-

Searched to make sense

Of why life had turned on me

And how to stop the bleeding,

If even momentarily.

 

This was no reasonable affair,

But I had learned long ago,

Reason always prevails.

 

With no rescue boat in sight

And no solution to end the plight

I accepted my fate;

Having recognized, paradoxically,

The answer lay not in the external fight,

But rather within my reasoned choice.

And that choice confessed-

Suffering is perpetual

And we find the meaning of life

When we find the meaning in suffering.

U.M.B.
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