Me Me Played Out

Me Me Played Out How prescient that first Me Me, Mama Pureed Pears Ice cream Cotton Candy Gathering to satiate Just for now How slowly the "Throw me the ball" evolves into "Give Me a kiss" sending ego's Me galloping onto "It's Me you need for this company" Me That ever present nag Living out the foretelling Oh so long ago The fulfillment Mommy and daddy said Was for Me Then The Me once innocent meets a You Meets Them Meets It Meets All Along the way Effusively Demons wrestle the graduated Me of now So small at first Mere guilt-buddies then Following Me from the corner candy store heist To church Where Me got neutralized Chastised Sanitized Galvanized For the moment Stumbling Me So indifferent to You So often So non-innocently Me in battle armor Yet In spite of Me My Me can reach this place This place of nothing/everything Where realization of place and time Reveals the Me, the I, the It of all But delusional comfort After all How else might the darkness Ever know the necessary light It's unqualified welcome Until The ever-illusive core accepts no end To Me To You Them It How sagacious the conclusion Existence' time and space sublime Awaiting but the next form of love For now Exhaustion complete Quintessence at peace