Dissatisfied

Sep 14, 2023

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I grow restless, ready to move

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find a new vista, new house, new groove

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I want a forest, I have a beach

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I want great views, I have everything I need

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I grow dissatisfied (an uncomfortable truth)

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just look at my history - it’s all there -it’s proof

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The grasping for more is real.

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This time

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the move must be internal

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the journey, within

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a trip to discover

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what pushes me to begin

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again and again and again.

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Find the root of the wanting,

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what’s to me, deficiency

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Find a way to believe

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I’m enough.

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This time I pledge

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to resist the siren song

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Move inward instead

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( journey might be long )

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but I

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commit

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to

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contentment.

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Committing to contentment is the principle I’m organizing my life around. Lovely poem!

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I love the openness of this poem, and how it addresses the question whether the grass really is greener in the neighbour's garden.

Great writing.