Based in Northern vignia, embwrites is a blog by poet Em. Her works explore themes surrounding self exploration and emotional expression.  

Calculating Enlightenment

“This is the true religion, the religion of snow,
and sunlight and winter geese barking in the sky”
                                                         
- Billy Collins

I used to think the path to enlightenment
was an excel spreadsheet
with a 0% margin of error

That if I input the correct formulas,
calculated each value to the nth degree of accuracy
I could artificially generate happiness

I spent so much time attempting
to integrate derivatives of daily life
that I forgot I was already alive

Only when my excel software crashed
and I glanced away from my screen
did I realize the solution to my equation
had been outside my window this entire time 

Dear Pretentious People

Lexical Drought