Dawn & Dusk

The system we live in
Needs you depressed
Needs you unsatisfied
Sent on an impossible quest

It has to make sure
That you feel inadequate
And make you feel you’re always
One step from happiness

It does this to sell you
A momentary relief
Temporarily easing the pain
But storing up the grief

It has to engineer a demand
So that it can always supply
Reaping from your unhappiness
Until the day you die

When I let go
Of this pointless striving
I found something powerful
In the silence rising

In the depths of my heart
Was born a deep contentment
And settling down on me
A cure for resentment

In accepting what I had
I found it was enough
And the things I missed
No longer felt so tough

Life is not perfect
I still sorrow in some loss
But that inner contentment I found
Has proven always to be enough