I can’t stop thinking about
the blind traveler
without a dream
wandering in a cold state of solitude
constantly walking
and perpetually lost.
How he starts to fall in love
but he feels like a fraud
because he is falling in love
behind a screen.
Every day,
blurry idealistic
images of a distant girl
form in his fogged mind.
Why am I still lost?
he wonders,
“I have been everywhere
have met the most wonderful people
and have never felt alive.”
Then,
the traveler falls into a pond,
and as the dirt on his face
and blood on his clothes wash away,
he sees
how he has not been anywhere
where he was not searching.
All these years lost because
he was looking for a meaning
that cannot be found.
He thinks about this girl,
far away and untouchable,
and trembles when he realizes that
she never existed
For hours,
she sang along to his lullabies,
listened to his stories,
repeatedly
for comfort, for reciprocal
entertainment --
The pond is now frozen,
and he blinds himself again,
but this time with tears,
as he has been mistaking duration
for progress.
“I don't know why you're crying,”
the girl says to him
“I am just as lost as you.”
Pain arises in the traveler
as he crawls out of the cold pond
suddenly aware
that he has missed
all of the pleasures in life.
And then,
the traveler walks on
in search of a home,
leaving the girl behind,
when he soon decides
what is meaningless
will forever be the same.
And so, he starts all over again.
That is such an amazing point! I fully agree! Consumerism plays such a big role in this - how we are always looking for a way to be better, to improv how we look how we act and we forget so often that the past us was dying to be even half as amazing as the current us but we hardly ever stop to appreciate the moment we’re in and the person we’ve already become
and yes totally is a good thing! If anyone‘s able to capture the vibe of eternal sunshine, thats pretty hard to do, it’s a wild movie with a pretty unusual narrative. I prefer Mr. Nobody personally for films that travel through different points in your…
This almost gives me Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vibes. Especially the line that says
“I don't know why you're crying,” “I am just as lost as you.” This poem is super aware of itself.
Its so much journeying and not much resolution in life. The search is the constant while the meaning "freezes over" and keeps refreshing itself so that being lost and unable to see clearly is this never ending cycle. Unless I totally misinterpreted. I really enjoyed this !