A quiet reflection on fulfillment and longing, “What I’m Searching For?” explores the silence between having and wanting—the tender journey of finding meaning within oneself.

# What I’m Searching For ?

I have everything—
yet my heart hums softly
with the fear of losing it.

My shelves are full,
lined with the shapes of dreams—
still waiting to breathe,
to wake, to live again.

Something stirs within me,
a thirst I cannot name,
a silence that gently unravels
the edges of my laughter.

What is it that I’ve lost?
A dream left behind?
A whisper that once guided
the stories I told myself?

Now I find meaning
in the slow pulse of dawn,
peace in the tender act
of simply breathing.

I measure time
not by what fades,
but by all I have grown—
roots that hold,
moments that teach,
soft truths my soul keeps.

Still, somewhere deep inside,
an echo murmurs faintly—
a connection unseen,
a memory unnamed,
a heartbeat out of reach.

Yet I keep searching—
for the beauty in small things,
for courage to dream anew,
to build not just a world around me,
but one that blooms within me—
the one I am still searching for.

(Vijay Verma)
www.retiredkalam.com

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