These self-revealing veils

are not veiled reality

but reality hidden

by our own mystery

We like being mysterious

being cloaked and unfathomable

being not average

being separate

and thereby different

Difference leading

to individuality

to uniqueness

to rarity

to eons and lifetimes

of dissatisfaction,

of blind searching

for what’s under our noses—

inside the pages

of our personal stories,

but overwritten by fiction

Tales full of purpose and duty,

charged with self-potency

but enfeebled by our own

blind pursuit of “some—thing”

when “no—thing” is All there is.

—Thinning of the Veils

1. Copyright © 2016 Carl Hitchens