what if you are not yourself?
what if you find out you created yourself
and know now there is no way of finding out
who you were
before you became?
the questions give me the only semblance of sanity
i am able to maintain in the midst of being no one
and all of them
who dare not ask the question.
i ask, but frankly,
what difference does it make?
Will death know me?
what if it confuses me with the one next door?
Vilify the ones who dare to engage
in this seemingly intelligent conversation
Vilify me.
and ask not since your mouth opens and closes
like a fish
gasping for water
inside the aquarium.
Is it worthwhile considering if the aquarium
knows the fish?
question it not.
what if you find out you created yourself
and know now there is no way of finding out
who you were
before you became?
the questions give me the only semblance of sanity
i am able to maintain in the midst of being no one
and all of themwho dare not ask the question.
i ask, but frankly,
what difference does it make?
Will death know me?
what if it confuses me with the one next door?
Vilify the ones who dare to engage
in this seemingly intelligent conversation
Vilify me.
and ask not since your mouth opens and closes
like a fish
gasping for water
inside the aquarium.
Is it worthwhile considering if the aquarium
knows the fish?
question it not.
Why ask who or what you are? Why not ask WHY you are, instead, or perhaps IF you are? You can never truly be who or what you think you are, nor who you would like to be. This energy can be used to delight in the essence of living. Just be. Just live, love, wonder, seek, hope, feel, think, sense, risk, suffer, heal...lather, rinse and repeat. -Just be.
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