Search for the Answer

in this tiring endless circle
of school, then work, then sleep
we get caught up in the doing
and forget to look beyond
the words on the page.
we miss the meaning of the equations,
the rich stories unfolding
in languages as yet beyond
our comprehension.
the search for an answer
is everything, we think,
and none of us ever look up
even once
to accept as it is
(with its flaws and its failings,
its limits and chains)
the magic
of knowledge.