This You

You grow older

You remember things

You forget things

Your childhood hangs onto you

Your childhood feeds your present

Your childhood shapes your future

You grow older

You change the story

You change yourself

You forgot your conception

You forgot your birth

You know you are here

You remember

You wonder

You wonder

I and We

How far we have traveled to be here today
How many years we have lived to have this knowledge
How deeply we love with the full pain and experience of life
I have failed and I have succeeded
I am the embodiment of strength and weakness
This life has broken me and rebuilt me
I am responsible for acts of my own will
I am here because of love
I am here to love
I am here to grow and nurture
I am a child of this Earth
I am an adult of this time
I wish to surpass what I believe is possible
I wish to surpass what I expect of myself
I am traveling further and further in my inner-landscape
I am listening to the voices of the Gods for they are all around
I am to remain humble in the face of nature and death
I am here only a short while and for that I must live wholly
We are together now and forever
We are all sisters and brothers
We must look beyond the trivial skin we use to separate
We are all of one beating heart
We are all of one blood
coursing through veins and arteries

You is I

the alarm goes off and you stay in bed
listening to it ring over and over
until it tires itself out

you look at the ceiling and let its blank
white space fill you

who is this so called you?

there is no you

the you is I

and I

need to move

I need to let the chill

of morning move through

my flesh and propel me onward

My Heart & I

I cannot sleep because
my heart is wide awake

It knows me better
than I care to admit

So we are keeping
each other company

on this lonely night
away from the crowds

alone in mutual silence