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Sep 2014
I've always wondered,
If there was more.
Something bigger,
I should be looking for.

At first I thought,
Maybe it is success.
So I succeeded in all,
I am the best.

But still I don't feel,
The way that I might.
So I will keep looking,
Until it feels right.

I thought maybe wealth,
Was the key to it all.
I work and I earn,
But that isn't the call.

The toys are fun,
The parties are great.
But I don't find meaning,
Driving one fifty eight.

At only seventeen,
I questioned the rules.
A year later I realize,
I was one of the fools.

There was no thrill,
In breaking the law.
Yet I was never caught,
By the courtroom's claw.

What more was left?
What hadn't I won?
I thought it was over,
My philosophy done.

I tried the last thing,
That I could think of:
The deepest and sweetest,
The purest of love.

I've tried many girls,
Until I found the one.
So incredibly smart,
Beautiful and fun.

I love her like nothing else.
She is the reason I continue.
Her perfection saved me,
From ending this venue.

But still unsatisfied,
I am hungry and tired.
Will I ever find,
All that I desired?

I talk with God,
Every morning and night.
I ask for forgiveness,
Rescue from this plight.

I can see his works,
Both far and wide,
Yet I still feel,
So empty inside.

Look at me, and all I have.
Now look inside. See?
I just don't get it.
What is wrong with me?

I'm a terrible person,
Still missing my meaning.
I'm happy, yet sad,
Nothing redeeming.

So still I wonder,
Is there something more?
Something bigger, better,
I should be looking for?
Nathaniel Brenner
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Nathaniel Brenner  Missouri
(Missouri)   
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