To Me or Not to Me
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7/18/2025 for Multiplicity of the Self Poetry Contest sponsored by Alice Reynolds
How would I define "me", and am I one, or two, or three?
Well, let me see.
I exhibit lots of behaviors and have many feelings and thoughts.
I hope I don't get tied in knots.
If you take all those things and then say that's the thing I am,
you might be onto something ma'am,
but when you lump items into one and generalize,
you lose something in my eyes,
and possibly introduce harmful prejudice,
or go otherwise amiss.
How I act or what I think or feel, such as when you're near,
needn't necessarily adhere
to any kind of self-definition or formulation.
In my humble estimation,
while I'm a hundred-thousand-million things, or so,
to call them "me" isn't useful though.
The things I am today, when a definition is obtained,
will change, and tomorrow will be in vain.
Turning my attention to another concept, I'll ponder infinity.
I guess I have no use for "me".
Copyright © David Crandall | Year Posted 2025
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