signs

guideposts

I am always looking
for guideposts in this life

a map as I wander
the back roads
to tell where I am
& which way to turn

Never quite sure what
it is I am looking for
I look to the outside
to rediscover the In

It doesn't always work
well

like any map, its needs
to be updated

how do others do it
do they just flounder
or is there some instinct
that gives them an idea
which turn is right
at the crossroads

Lots of advice
tons, in fact
and yet none truly applies to me

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talk and talk
and all of one's own self
for in the end,
it is what we know best

the tunnel vision of ego
keeps knowledge on a
personal bent

and leaves those searching
with only skewed points of view

it is never easy
to walk the mile in
another's mocassins

and even less so when
asked opinion over a
sympathic ear