A Simpleton’s Cumbersome Existence

TukE
2 min readFeb 1, 2024

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I long to fly away to far-away lands

My pain, my life, my grief and my hopelessness are a void begging to be filled.

I finally found a job, an update from my previous entrance on this site. I can't help but ask whether I'm happier now or when I was unemployed. Am I happier now? Am I more fulfilled? Does my life now carry purpose and meaning?

Questions I cannot answer, answers too far from my understanding, an understanding too cumbersome for a simpleton such as myself. I question my very existence, the extent of my mortality put to the test each day. There were hitherto days whence I gladly offered myself to anyone who would take me.

My body and soul got so congested that it was impossible to tell where I ended and others began. My life was not mine alone, not mine to behold. It belonged to the world and everything in it. And yet, I was hated by the world, my very existence was contested each day. And I was shunned and ex-communicated on a daily.

My view from work

Who am I again? And what am I living for? Questions I still ponder on. My imagination carrying me, lifting me up, to points of no return. I come crushing down, as though too heavy for the forces that had propelled me up in the first place.

I linger on, only long enough that my life might clog the hole that I was born to fill. Once I'm gone, will someone else take my place?

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TukE
TukE

Written by TukE

To you my God, my Silent One, the Author of my life. To you do I dedicate these writings, in your hands are my thoughts.

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