Seeing Love
Lina Ru
Seeing Love
This place has grown,
I believe I'm old.
I hadn't realized
I was a bud
in a ball of mud,
a gigantic globe
that believed
in aged dreams:
who I am, who I see,
I can use my memories,
but I forgot…
I forgot!
Who am I?
My skin looks old,
but I'm still a bud
full of mud,
full of goals.
I want to be taught again
as if I had never been born.
Let me free
from these fairy nightmares
that tell me I have always
free from…
No more!
I ask the questions,
see the mud,
and see the bud,
see the ball,
see the old
become
timeless
love.
Observe with attention,
who are you?
who am I?
where are you?
where is the mud
that molds your face
as you grow old?
How many times we forget about the possibility of losing our memories completely, and becoming a stranger to yourself. How can we really become “someone” whose identity is not reduced to memories? How can we really be ourselves if time goes by and we don’t look at ourselves deeply?
