In the end
Was anything other than solace
That he was looking for all the way
Up the stairway to the fairyland?
Beyond all the humdrum of his life,
Surrounded by the pomp and the vanity fair,
What was the assurance
That he was looking for?
What was the identity
That he was searching for?
What did the hungry faces at the small hut on the roadside
told him?
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