Puzzle Pieces

She’s been through this before so she just watches and waits… They start with the edges, examining each piece, lining her up according to what they think is right. Some people spend forever, just trying to get the outline of her. Others move on to searching for the connecting pieces of her soul. She lets them search, unbothered, because she knows this is where most people quit her. She’s become too difficult, she has too many pieces. She is impossible to solve… Yet there are some, a few brave souls, who struggle through, and put the last piece into place only to find that the image before them is a puzzle itself – piece after piece still waiting to find its match and after a lifetime of work, they are still left to wonder who she is… and she laughs, because she’s spent her lifetime wondering the exact same thing…