nathanael.ink

today it’s an elaborate set
everything setup to tell me
who one was, and who one once wanted to be
and when I wake up
a whole bedroom to tell me
I am the kind of thing
who acquires things like these
some house
in my mind sends a spark
telling me to walk
to read poems
and to listen
to every recording I have ever made

to draw a line
from there to here

And when it all I have taken in
what now shall we say?

your guess
is as good as this
were you also to wake up here
and be told
that all of these things
are you

who then would you say you are?
and how do you know, that that…
that that is not me?
that you are not me?
and if we could know…
could I also be? both or either you or me?
or could I be
be… incongruence

today
if I could

I think

just be alive
and be
glad to be

as, given the evidence, it seems to me
neither you nor I
have almost ever been

so…
this one
is on us
it is for us

I will, today, be glad to be
alive
and in so doing
I am hoping
it does us both a favor