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“The Greatest Mystery”

Floating along in space eternal
as if on a stream universal.
Seeking what's there, knowing not why.
I, the greatest mystery, hope to untie.

Its secret elusive and yet truly not.
Its power unyielding and yet often sought.
Its path well-travelled yet only begun.
Its wisdom is perfect yet known by none.

Grasping at air or nothing at all.
Blissful cessation or bounty eternal,
one and the same or greatly diverse?
Perhaps both veils I ought to traverse.

Yet when I look the question square in the face,
there's surely one answer I cannot escape.
For I am that mystery I seek to resolve;
the solution is to go inward and thereby evolve.

© 1991 Ray Davis. All rights reserved.