I never thought that this would happen -
That I could be living as me.
I feel like a child pretending.
It's water that's holding us up, embraced
By the arms not of an angel
Not of anything creaturely or small
We are in a womb and we aren't aware
That this is the first stage, unfinished
Ungrown, undeveloped, beautiful potential.
We can't despise our limitations
But we can despise our smugness,
Arrogance, self-assuredness,
Thinking that we have the capacity
For understanding all
But the reality is embracing us.
We don't see past the immediate.
We don't dream for lack of rest.
Always running, working, reading, consuming.
Not taking breaths,
Not tilting our heads,
Not lying down to study the heights of the clouds,
Not considering the depths of the sea,
Not seeing you as I or us as we.
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