# The Things I Wish I Did Not Know

By [Mitch](https://paragraph.com/@mitchcastanet) · 2022-02-04

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**I have gazed within and now must forsake**

**To forge the great world I want to make**

**I have sought truth and I have sought facts**

\*\*And it is with nothing to show that I must ask: \*\*

**Why have I endeavored to be on this path**

**To try in earnest to solve this incalculable math?**

**Was it to help me or was it to help you?**

\*\*Why do I do the things that I do? \*\*

**My goal was simple and shared by many**

**It was not to acquire just one more penny**

**But rather to live a life fulfilled**

\*\*Replete with the usual trips, falls, and spills \*\*

**I have come to know much in this world**

**These thoughts and ideas, around my head they twirled**

**It was with these abstractions I found much confusion**

\*\*My mind, body, and soul sustaining many contusions \*\*

**My knowledge has made me a rich man, no doubt**

**Yet I ask myself daily, "What is it all about?"**

**This life I've been given and didn't ask for**

\*\*Vulnerable and damaged, my spirit has washed ashore \*\*

**Perhaps on the beaches of ignorance I will find**

**More purpose and pleasure in this fruitless grind**

**Leave behind what I know, my suffering has urged**

\*\*These values, these goals, my conscience must purge \*\*

**To wipe the slate clean and begin anew**

**I now know it would mean nothing without you**

**Without love, without passion, I have nothing to show**

**The things I wish I did not know**

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*Originally published on [Mitch](https://paragraph.com/@mitchcastanet/the-things-i-wish-i-did-not-know)*