Showing posts with label we all wake as each other. Show all posts
Showing posts with label we all wake as each other. Show all posts

Saturday, June 30, 2018

us, them, I, we: Becoming the Other





we all wake as each other
 
we all wake as each other
i, particularly
pick you up when you die in air and auto crashes: in a dream
i am you, and then
all memory is gone, nothing but a sensation of relief at living on
i felt the flame
touch my skin
i have been a rainbow coloured woman in a sinking bus, i have been a
passenger on many
ferries, i have swum
down, to a door, white metal in blackness, gone through,
and drowned
sleep apnea be damned
i am you and you are me and we are all
reflections of the larger eye that we
are building

~ ~ Peter Greene




©Peter A. Greene 2014

[Thanks, Peter, for permission to share your poem here.]