From Robert Creeley's "Oh No"
If you walk a long distance you will stumble across something. When you arrive, there will be room for you. The place is meant only for you and you will be comfortable. Your friends will be there waiting, happy to see you. And they belong there too.
From Suji Kwock Kim's "Monologue for an Onion"
I don't want to upset you, and I mean you no harm, but still you hurt me and attempt to strip me down.
You continue to cry as you strip away my layers and every part of me falls in front of you. You are mistaken man, as you search deep inside me.
Keep searching. Under every layer, I have another. I am solid, inside and out. My deepest insides you will not discover.
There you are, crying still. Is this how you live? Obsessed with what you think you could find?
You keep tearing away layers of everything around you. Are sadness and destruction enough for you? Stop.
Don't be sad that you cannot see the truth. What did you expect? How are you going to find the truth?
The truth that is in you. You, who keeps digging for the root of it all, desperate for answers. Look at what is right before you, pathetic.
All of my layers are aching. But you are the broken one. What you were trying to do backfired and you've caused yourself pain. You aren't you anymore.
By searching for these answers you have torn your soul, and you are in pieces all around us. And what did you find at your center? A broken core?
You're weak and have separated your own self. You cannot find your true self now deep inside all of the layers. Someday your desperation for truth will kill you.
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