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We are ONE
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by rayn via sonny - Inverse Times Saturday, Jul 21 2018, 8:25am
international / poetry / post

don’t look at me with those
calculating eyes;
why look through ur personal
prisms as all u see is urself
or ur projected aspirations

have u not realised that i
am all the qualities that attracted u?
and yet ur eyes betray that u wish to modify
what ur distorted vision sees

are u able to sail across seas using the clouds
as sails or harness the sun to lift u above the temporal
and fly? i doubt it. i am a poet and if u would inspire me
first inspire urself

so be content with what u have now
as tomorrow never comes,
where are u if u continually project?
out of the present u are nowhere,
as tomorrow for me is as today
gliding free always

u have as much chance of nailing me
as nailing the wind

learn to feel and sense rather than calculate
if ur not here with me now u may as well
be elsewhere permanently

settle first within urself before
u attempt to alter the unalterable,
find urself and offer it to me
if u wish and see if it works

if not, better adieu
now


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