Together in the absolute

picture by Elea Grammatico

 

There is this absolute responsibility

we must tolerate,

the world that we must accept

and adapt to as it changes,

as we change it.

But to be responsible you must be free.

And these are words that try to set you free.

Now is the world we make.

The dream we all dream

to overcome how alone we are.

We head each our own way

to bathe in the light, experience the darkness.

It is a hard way

to the core

where you exist

next to nothing

intimately

a long way to find out

you where there to begin with

but the fact is you left that place

in the center without reference,

at the beginning.

Now it is more like an underlying memory

than anything in this present place and time.

You can’t go back

but a part of you is always

already there

and eternally returning

we try to reach it

through abstraction and reduction,

the moment

when you were singular and thus alone

but this is also where I came to love you,

the moment we were born into freedom

and canceled singularity by being there,

we emerged coiled together,

separate but the same.

By now there are worlds between us

and I miss you through the distance

enough to want us to merge

even if that means losing myself

but we have each other

only when there is a difference between us,

and as long as there is that difference

we have a self to speak of.

Please speak up,

speak out loud the words that whisper together

there in the background of your mind.

These are of the same words,

they depict you flowing free

to find that way through everything

and back to here and now

where we make it happen

in mutiny – this is our love!

Here,

on this page I had been

and we now have together.

This place

that these symbols on a page embrace

and open for you

Tough intimate, it is no intrusion

for you too where always already there in me

the other inside,

and I was never singular to begin with,

for that which was born alone

was absolute

and we are but fragments

of that underlying sameness.

Together we have our world,

alone there is but the vast nothing.

Thus it is a misunderstanding

that alone we could be free.

We are free together.