Quest To Find Meaning

Quest To Find Meaning
© Surazeus
2026 06 13

I have wandered river landscape of Earth 
two hundred million years of spinning time 
on endless quest to find meaning of life, 
and each moment I almost understand 
I generate new body with my mate 
so I continue journey to the stars. 

Just on the other side of the bright hill 
where nothingness of death looms over me, 
I find another world of wooded vales 
where tribes of people live on river shores 
so I keep climbing endless hills of hope 
till I discover that our world is round. 

I keep on walking to the end of time 
while singing to beam visions of my eyes 
which helps me organize my memories 
in coherent tales of cause and effect 
so I can map the endless road of faith 
where other people walk before I come. 

I follow the rising sun every dawn 
forever toward the endless sea of light, 
but then turn away toward the setting sun 
because I keep walking circles of fate, 
one hundred thousand years till I arrive 
at the edge of the world in Oregon. 

With you at my side on the ocean shore 
I listen to the endless song of waves 
which I cannot translate to human words, 
and explain to you the meaning of life 
which I discover in my vain attempt 
to evade death and live another day. 

If I can find the wings of Icarus 
and fly above this world of hills and lakes, 
I would ascend to world of swirling clouds 
to find grand crystal palace of the gods 
who live forever in dreams of our minds 
as our ancestors who watch over us. 

Stuck in this soft body of hungry flesh 
as temporary node of deathless genes, 
my spirit writhes with passion to transcend 
confining limits of this transient life 
to savor psychic glow of ecstasy 
that expands my mind through epiphany. 

There is no meaning to this sudden life, 
so we invent religions based on myths 
of people whose grand deeds of public life 
are framed with tragic consequence of fate 
because they try to assert thought control 
instead of flowing with the tides of change.