Beyond the Pain

This is for Rumi T.

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Each of us
Is alone
And
Yet not.

 None but us
Lives inside
The body
And
The mind.

 None other can
know, taste,
savour the fear, terror,
happiness, delight,
and ecstasy.

 Pale empathies
We share.
Yet, living inside,
Alone
Yields not
Completeness.

 In Truth
We are islands.
We alone choose
Insular status
Or
Construct bridges,
Causeways,
And, paths to others.

 Connections are made
Not from one
Rather the reaching
Out of two.

 You will always
Be an  island.
But need not
Alone entirely be.

 It is but for you to choose.

© 1987 Lyle T. Lachmuth

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