This poem reflects an inward spiritual journey from restless searching to quiet self-realization. It explores how true peace isn’t found in the outer world’s noise or distractions, but in stillness, self-awareness, and the gentle voice within.

# The Voice Within #

I once searched for peace in distant skies,
In crowded streets and strangers’ eyes,
In songs that rose, in lights that shone—
Yet I felt those roads were not my own.

I gathered words like falling rain,
Hoping one might ease my pain,
But all the noise the world could give
Still could not teach my heart to live.

So I sat where silence softly grew,
Where wind was breath and I knew my soul,
And in that hush, so deep, so true,
I found a soothing voice I never knew.

It did not shout, it did not cry,
It spoke as gently as the sky:
“You chase the stars from shore to shore,
Not knowing you are what you search for.”

In that moment, I saw, still and clear,
I felt a quiet calm drawing near—
Not from afar, not from above,
But rising from a hidden love.

Now I do not wander far to find
What life has saved and kept in mind,
For all the peace I dreamed to find
Was waiting in my listening heart.

(Vijay Verma)
 www.retiredkalam.com

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