I am never alone.
I am always being invaded by forces of my own.
There’s a strangeness inside me.
An other that’s of me.
I know that it knows me,
But not quite completely.
Sometimes it’s frightening to learn
What being can be.
To see and unsee.
I’ve seen my becoming and thought,
“But how could it be?”
I remember I witnessed this becoming
In someone that wasn’t me.
It was unbecoming,
I thought, “this shouldn’t be!”
Now I’m invaded by a making
That’s rejecting itself.
I sit here in a moment and feel like
Somebody else.
One body, same as the mind.
Same as the earth.
Away from itself, a way in the world.
One body, same as the bones,
Same as my other, same as my soul.
Away from itself. A way in the world.
I keep exceeding myself outside of my dreams.
Inside my inside,
I feel these unspoken streams.
These creeping loose ends
Spanning past my own means…
I am a distance, always departing.
To see and unsee.
I keep deceiving myself,
Thinking I’m knowing
When I’m just growing myself.
Sometimes I just want to listen and learn,
Be broken to pieces with no return.
To be different, exceed more than my own.
Just me and my knower going free from my known.
Only to rove, still undisclosed.
I am never alone.
I am never alone,
I am always being invaded by a making
That’s rejecting itself.
I sit here in a moment and feel like
Somebody else.
One body, same as the mind.
Same as the earth.
Away from itself, a way in the world.
One body, same as the bones,
Same as my other, same as my soul.
Away from itself. A way in the world.
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