Missing

I misplaced my identity

My true self came up missing

I tried to craft a profile

To assist my search--a listing

I described my appearance 

All the features of my presence

But every definition I transcribed

Somehow erased my essence

I sought others opinion

Of the self I had misplaced

But each description differed

Proving futile on its face

I catalogued possessions

Every feat, title, and pedigree

But found each one to be my own 

False idols of identity

Till what was left was clouded

In denying immorality

Just isolated ego

In the confines of mortality

I wondered was my lost self

But a vain hallucination

Then I considered something

A far broader realization

Beyond outward appearance

Beyond stigmatization

Beyond ego placebos

And beyond life’s expiration

Within the distant future 

Came a vision most essential

Far greater than imagined

Was the truth of my potential