Aug 10
War
I am at war,
and the battle wages on.
I am a man,
divided amongst myself.
I see, I taste,
I need, I breathe, I witness.
I want, I feel,
I kill, I cure, I strive.
Taken apart from myself,
I’d hardly recognize me.
Yet taken as a whole,
I am lost inside me.
Do you recognize this man,
Who can step from a ledge and die?
Do you recognize this man,
Who can prove truth of a lie?
He is I and I am him,
A god and yet a man.
Same as you, same as him,
The one from whom you ran.
Know the man inside, you say.
Aha! But who is which?
Each in his own right, you say.
Like flipping on a switch.
