A Blue Dawn

If consciousness is emergent,
where is it emerging from

The dualists say… the naturalists say…
but answers just won’t come

As the blue hour seeds the dawn,
before the new arriving sun

One question hard, the self must ask
—how consciousness becomes 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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