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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2004-06-18 08:10 PM


I suppose when I get there,
I won’t ever leave
or unsatisfied look sideways
for another Personality
to conquer my Identity.  

Identity, the one I really am,
when I get there,
and I’m supposing so,
will remain in constant love
with symbols of the sun  
implanted in my heart
by magicians of the free.

I suppose when I get there,
I won’t ever leave
the comfort of believing
I was worthy of the pain  
decreed as the way
all travelers go back home
no longer to suppose
they’ll get there one day.      

But Personality, the one I’ve come to be,
has weighted down Identity
with inconsequential needs
and hindered my advance
with trappings of the past.    

And the war of the two
continues, it would seem,
until Identity
lays waste to personality
and buries the remains
at the end of this lifetime.

Why do we hide
in skin and bone playsuits
until in death to know  
how free we all can be
in our Identities?

Helen

© Copyright 2004 Helen - All Rights Reserved
jwesley
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563
Spring, Texas
1 posted 2004-06-18 09:26 PM


Indeed, my friend . . . the fun lies in wondering if that "free idenity" is as we imagine it . . . or ???   I'd love to know but am in no hurry to find out.

Enjoyed the read...

jwesley

passing shadows
Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
2 posted 2004-06-19 05:18 AM


well done! great message here
Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
3 posted 2004-06-19 05:54 AM


Thank you both for the read.  Messages, yes, we hear and forget as life seems to insist.
Ericc
Member Elite
since 2003-01-31
Posts 4178

4 posted 2004-06-19 01:40 PM


Great write...full of meaning and beauty.

Eric

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