Just Walking Around
Just Walking Around - meaning Summary
Identity Through Aimless Wandering
The speaker addresses an unnamed person whose identity resists labels, describing aimless wandering and inward preoccupation. This solitude and circular habit are framed as both inefficient and inevitable. Nearing an endpoint, the journey's pieces are said to open with light, mystery, and sustenance. The speaker invites the addressee to seek that inner revelation rather than the speaker, while quietly hoping they might be present together when it appears.
Read Complete AnalysesWhat name do I have for you? Certainly there is not name for you In the sense that the stars have names That somehow fit them. Just walking around, An object of curiosity to some, But you are too preoccupied By the secret smudge in the back of your soul To say much and wander around, Smiling to yourself and others. It gets to be kind of lonely But at the same time off-putting. Counterproductive, as you realize once again That the longest way is the most efficient way, The one that looped among islands, and You always seemed to be traveling in a circle. And now that the end is near The segments of the trip swing open like an orange. There is light in there and mystery and food. Come see it. Come not for me but it. But if I am still there, grant that we may see each other.
Feel free to be first to leave comment.