From I To We

from “i” to “we” the independent, unique, ambitious individual who lives for the day & spends their time squeezing the nectar from life defines themselves on their own & is known to their friends, their workplace & their family as a person on the verge of anything where the possibilities are endless for growth & no one can stand in the way of their dreams. now somewhere along the way they meet another & are completely taken aback by them--- thrown for a loop by this other unique individual, whose mere existence seems to be a one in a million & they too are ready for anything with the ability to forge new ground without looking back without taking no for an answer & suddenly one is entranced by the other. and for a brief moment, the two are still themselves, each unique, but now spending time experiencing the other--- they cater to their specialties, but the create a new space, one where they both reside & sooner than later, it is that space which sucks in the energy from the other once unique spaces, draining them dry & the “i” begins to disappear, along with the strength of the individual along with the ambition to be more along with the destiny of one, for now there are no longer two distinct people anymore. “we” becomes used to describe either of the two alone or when they are together, and suddenly there is no escaping this “we” that crept in, almost unannounced, for all the time that the two once-unique individuals spent experiencing the other was a smokescreen for the quick elimination of everything that made them themselves.