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Array ( [sid] => 3931 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Am I Here? [time] => 2002-09-17 06:28:05 [hometext] => This poem is kind of reflecting on the meaning of existence. [bodytext] => Am I here or am I not?
Can you tell, for I cannot
Oftentimes I lie awake
And ponder thoughts profound
Yet the matter still is most opaque
And my questions yet abound

Am I here or am I not?
Despite all I have bethought
This question stems from deep within
I gaze upon the maelstrom of life
My dubious existence whirls therein
Spinning in confusion and ephemeral strife

Am I here or am I not?
My relativist reality is fraught
With unanswered questions
And unquestioned answers
They coalesce in nebulous fusion
This vague beingness spreads like cancer

Am I here or am I not?
All rhyme and reason comes to naught
When trying to define
This elusive concept known as life
And yet I still must try
To answer all these questions
With which my mind is rife

Am I here or am I not?
Being is a story without a plot
My thoughts at last do simply maunder
Throughin and throughout this illusory place
As all that is left to me is to ponder
The pseudo-existence of time and of space
[comments] => 3 [counter] => 468 [topic] => 25 [informant] => Vigilante006 [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 11 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => MiscPoems )
Am I Here?

Contributed by Vigilante006 on Tuesday, 17th September 2002 @ 06:28:05 AM in AEST
Topic: MiscPoems



Am I here or am I not?
Can you tell, for I cannot
Oftentimes I lie awake
And ponder thoughts profound
Yet the matter still is most opaque
And my questions yet abound

Am I here or am I not?
Despite all I have bethought
This question stems from deep within
I gaze upon the maelstrom of life
My dubious existence whirls therein
Spinning in confusion and ephemeral strife

Am I here or am I not?
My relativist reality is fraught
With unanswered questions
And unquestioned answers
They coalesce in nebulous fusion
This vague beingness spreads like cancer

Am I here or am I not?
All rhyme and reason comes to naught
When trying to define
This elusive concept known as life
And yet I still must try
To answer all these questions
With which my mind is rife

Am I here or am I not?
Being is a story without a plot
My thoughts at last do simply maunder
Throughin and throughout this illusory place
As all that is left to me is to ponder
The pseudo-existence of time and of space




Copyright © Vigilante006 ... [ 2002-09-17 06:28:05]
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Re: Am I Here? (User Rating: 1 )
by WordPoet on Tuesday, 17th September 2002 @ 06:32:41 AM AEST
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Well thought out, Well written. Keep up the good work.


Re: Am I Here? (User Rating: 0 )
by Former_Member on Wednesday, 18th September 2002 @ 12:53:40 AM AEST
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I enjoyed this and think it deserves far more than a scoring of 1. So many questions yet so few answers can be aggravating sometimes don't you think.



Re: Am I Here? (User Rating: 1 )
by Stitch on Friday, 24th September 2004 @ 08:51:36 AM AEST
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I think there for I am...and yet, I know this feeling and you have described it well.
Stitch




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