Has she remembered to write about me?
I needed to re-read this:
What Is True: We’re Born and We Die…
Alone?
Not once
And never to be.
For we are united
The moment we speak.
The language that flows
From our minds to our tongues
Was certainly not born
The moment we’re formed.
Countless souls
Are remembered
With everyone’s speeches
For our words were their words
You better believe it!
Even the thoughts
That we carry
And the feelings
That sweep us
Have been held before
In those that precede us.
Feel!!! the embrace
Of people uncounted
For they inhabit the words
And the thoughts we make habit.
Alone?
Not once
In the world’s history!
Every thing, spirit, being
Lived in company.
One cell
An early Earth
Immersed in a sea
Surrounded by countless
Cells that would be
So many people
Living communally.
Alone?
Not once
Though they tell me
At birth
I entered the Earth
As if I was first.
But from where
Did I come
Was it not from my mom?
Did I not spend
Prior hours
Bonded like one?
But go farther back
Was I not made from two?
I was never a “one”
I am telling you!
For even when taken
From my mother’s only womb
I arrived into hands
Into a crowd
And so did you!
Alone?
It will not be
Not even in death.
For I go
Where ALL go
We’ll ALL go
To a rest!
Into the same bed
Meant to rise when we rise
As Earth, Beings, Spirits
(Don’t say you’re surprised!).
We came from
The same many
We return to them too.
You are never alone
You’ve never been.
That is true.
2/9/06
What Is True: We’re Born and We Die…
Alone?
Not once
And never to be.
For we are united
The moment we speak.
The language that flows
From our minds to our tongues
Was certainly not born
The moment we’re formed.
Countless souls
Are remembered
With everyone’s speeches
For our words were their words
You better believe it!
Even the thoughts
That we carry
And the feelings
That sweep us
Have been held before
In those that precede us.
Feel!!! the embrace
Of people uncounted
For they inhabit the words
And the thoughts we make habit.
Alone?
Not once
In the world’s history!
Every thing, spirit, being
Lived in company.
One cell
An early Earth
Immersed in a sea
Surrounded by countless
Cells that would be
So many people
Living communally.
Alone?
Not once
Though they tell me
At birth
I entered the Earth
As if I was first.
But from where
Did I come
Was it not from my mom?
Did I not spend
Prior hours
Bonded like one?
But go farther back
Was I not made from two?
I was never a “one”
I am telling you!
For even when taken
From my mother’s only womb
I arrived into hands
Into a crowd
And so did you!
Alone?
It will not be
Not even in death.
For I go
Where ALL go
We’ll ALL go
To a rest!
Into the same bed
Meant to rise when we rise
As Earth, Beings, Spirits
(Don’t say you’re surprised!).
We came from
The same many
We return to them too.
You are never alone
You’ve never been.
That is true.
2/9/06