The Shape Of What We Are

The Problem of Being


Sometimes I think I want to be someone

sometimes I realize I am someone

but who am I?

What is that question really asking?

I don’t know if I’m the one asking the questions

or if I’m the one with no answers

Sometimes I think I am made of love

and the only answer is that love is the equation

I’m trying to solve

That equation is me

but I’m more than a problem

I am more than just questions

Is it okay if I say I’m the universe

experiencing a person

a person who doesn’t know her name

I walk in the rooms with small steps

trying not to disturb the air 

trying not to be a burden to the atmosphere

I stare at walls without any color

I wonder if I am nothing

while believing I am everything

I am this empty house without 

an owner and without windows

there is no view of my life from here.

Made of the Same Essence

Where is god

I like to think she’s inside me

I like to think I know her by name

We have known each other

since the beginning of time

before time even began

Is it ok to say I’m god 

and you are too

both of us not knowing

What we are doing down here

in the midst of all the mess

we are walking together

But we cannot see each other’s 

real selves, we only see the 

outline in the sky of who we are

I am you and you are me

we are we, made of the same essence

still denying what we really are. 

The Scent of Our Truth

There’s a place out by the green grasses

where we could be one

we could sit and contemplate ourselves

Under a hot and glowing sun

as if we were not just people

but something far beyond our humanity


Whatever spirit lives inside us

it’s as if the universe wants us to find 

our real essence, the scent of our truth


We are beauty, there is no other color

than the shades that we paint our

inner walls with, the windows in our eyes


You and me, we are it, we are the whole thing

yet we race around the earth looking

for ourselves under trees and beneath the soil

When we are really the only flowers

that bloom all year round

even when the winter freezes our roots


We tell a story about death

but it is not our tale

it’s only rumors 


We don’t die, we only change

we don’t live, 

we only pretend to.

nina

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