If we take away our bodies
and the gender orientations
we pronounce,
if we take away
all of our familial roles
and our positions of authorities
and our functions as good listeners,
all our service as our deeds,
if we take away
all our places held in time,
the weave
of our peer compliances,
our stories
as bystanders or accomplices,
all our inferences
from age and circumstance,
all our intelligence
towards accomplishments,
our attention
towards earned respect
and just rewards,
if we take away
all the gratification and longings,
all our reasonings
and rationalizations,
all our particulars
that fill our needs to know,
all thoughts done as avoidance,
all ill will
and all the separation
behind gained perspectives,
all the responses
now approaching as compliments,
if we take away
all the representations
that justify full feelings
and go with
what is simply available,
this space: we occupy with motion,
this time: of timelessness as now,
this expanse:
of emptiness re-embraced,
this oneness of us all,
then what is lesson?
What is learned?
What is passage
and then remembered?
What is that work of keeping track,
of a knowing towards feeling safe,
of being busier then be?
How did this all become
so over endowed,
so oriented beyond deed,
so accountably problematic
as if frame by frame?
How did it get to be
that we are so separated,
so pursuant
and so superficially relational?
How did literacy and language
and order
get so much
so helpfully in the way?
When did being
become an operative
and when did fear
become the kibitz
of self-consciousness?
When did living become a style
and when did life become a story?
How could experience become
so encumbered
with measurable results,
so falsely ordained
by contents' bequeath?
Do we loose ourselves
with understanding
of how all this is?
Do we give up on each other
by withholding who we are?
Do we leave each other
by the silence from our hearts?
Can you and I surrender
through whatever is before us?
Can we create through whatever
as our next moments' breath?
Can we empathize
without knowing what that means?
Can we give freely
from the flow now coming through
and consider self-trust our upper limit
and feel with no need to identify
nor be met?
Can we be that us?
Can we be?
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