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Many of us feel the need to question life. Sometimes we are fortunate to find the answers we seek, and sometimes we find ourselves just drifting endlessly, searching for the answers that seem to constantly elude us.

Drifting

I sometimes find I'm drifting
Through this life without effect;
I often wonder if I'm truly
Worth what I've been blessed.

I search through days that have been hard,
To try to understand,
The many trials that I have known,
The life that I have had.

You see me in my daily grind,
So confident and strong;
Yet when I am alone, I question
Just where I belong.

I often try too hard I find,
To analyze and guess,
To scrutinize, investigate
My life I will confess.

For somewhere deeper, there must be
Some meaning to this life,
Some way to make a difference,
Give a reason for this strife.

Is there some hidden meaning?
Some agenda to be found?
A greater purpose waiting
If I care to hang around?

It teases and it taunts me,
Always slightly out of sight;
A hazy vision out of reach,
Where darkness hides the light.

I struggle to bring clarity
To what awaits me there,
And yet this weak illusion
Always fades before my stare.

It seems the harder that I try,
To focus through the haze,
Just serves to add more questions,
Through my endless, tired gaze.

Perhaps I'm trying just too hard,
To understand it all,
For can we ever truly know
Just what we have in store?

Each incident, each moment passed,
Just adds upon the next,
But in the end, will I find truth ...
Or will I be perplexed?

Perhaps I make it harder
Than it has to be sometimes,
But will my searching bring to me
My meaning over time?

Or will it leave me broken,
And confused as I feel now,
While questions bring no solitude,
To this, my wrinkled brow.

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Visitor Comments (from the Voting form)
Fatima
Awesome poem! it touched my heart. felt like my own feelings
Rowena
It is simply beautiful. and it touches my heart. Nice piece.
HEATHER
BEAUTIFUL. SOUNDS AS IF YOU WROTE THIS ESPECIALLY FOR ME.
ruby
wow i really felt like this poem was ment for me b/c i'm just graduating and i need to understand where i'm going from here. thanx/ruby/
Alzeena
i love this poem! I have used this poem for a lot of my seventh grade projects. one of the reasons why i love this poem and choose it above all the others is because this poem describes my personality. and frankly, looking at all the other comments, i would think that alot of the other fans feel the same way about this poem. i am in eighth grade now and i am back to this poem for another project. **Thank you Kit McCallum, for having wrote such a wonderful poem to inspire us, young readers
CandiGrl
Very inspiring! I love it. I give you an 8 from 1-10.
Anna
i really loved your poem about Life and its purpose, and, for my poetry read-aloud at school, i'm gonna use this one. it's really beautiful, and gives life thru the eyes of not a really up-and-at-'em person, or a glass-is-half-EMPTY person, but just a life-is-ok, -go-enjoy it sorta person. Hope ya don't mind anna
CRYSTAL
I THINK IT WAS VERY WONDERFULL TO SEE HOW INSIGHTFULL SO MANY PEOPLE ARE OUT HERE ARE ARE3 I LIKED YOUR POEM IT TOUCHED ME IN A WAY THAT ILL NEVER FORGET. ---------THANKS
patricia
This peom I am sure resonates with any of us that are trying to find out the "why" in this world.
rinchen
reading this poem reminded me of me. the me that i thought was lost. but now i know that this heart still beats. with memories that i cherish the most.
rochelle
i really liked this poem i think its the best i have read so far. ! i believe that maybe you wont know what you meaning of life is, is until you have lived it ! Keep up the writting its a beautiful skill you have . x. x
polly
i myself have questioned my life. so nice to see it in writing
laura
This poem has touched deep within my soul. Drifting, trying to find me.
Linda
Of all the poems I have read on this site so far this morning, this one has touched me. It may be where I am in my life now, or it may be that the writer has the empathy to express the dept of feelings. Good job!
Ayu
*heartfelt. reminds me of me in the state of now*
Courtney
I love it, it really touched me
Justy
no words to say for this one! wonder full. though few of the lines really decribes something about me, which i often tell myself. really it made me SIT DOWN & read it poperly. u got good talent to use simple words into something really meaningful in simple meaning. title really suites. keep it up
Monica
Awesome
Kathy
Ohhh My Gosh! i loved your poem! everysingle word you said, it felt like you were reading my mind and putting how i feel into words it just seemed so graceful. you are truly a great poet!
Camille
This was a great poem that reminded me about the true meaning in life- your relationship with God and who you really are. Wonderful poem!
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