Within this tempest I am vast,
Coiled within the planes
Of my primordial awareness.
I am irrevocably myself,
Beyond the mirrors of place and time
I am eternal, enigmatic in obfuscation.
A universe, the universe I belong
That much is afforded my existence.
The body is only a vehicle
And the earth likewise.
I spin lopsided circles in a puddle
Of my own specificity.
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When I close my eyes I see the stars
Of what I might have been.
When I close my eyes I see the stars
Of what I still am despite my boundaries.
When I draw all the breaths afforded me
I shall again be beyond definition.
The risk undertaken by all,
With or without consent,
Comes in shrinking one’s immensity.
For we are, each of us, important.
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Authority cannot be just,
That goes without saying,
And even if it were possible
I have a heart that wants
Desperately to get out.
Some of us are born
With a stroke of mischief,
Some of us only breathe.
The wind is at my back
And I am stooped like a buzzard
Over a foreign architecture.
I choose to love and that is
Hardly a choice at all.
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