Our Pronoun

Light embraces the earth, the earth its light day and night. Where is separation? A smile reveals the row of teeth. Teeth and mouth before birth after death. When were we alone? When was I alone with your embrace with your smile. I: an earth that particle by particle dust to dust gathered was born from inside your sun. I: a mouth that with the soft tickle of your fingertip - on my hard chin — suddenly opened with a smile opened with a kiss. Head and hands and feet, have not been a collection of lifeless objects in me. Eyes and ears and lips, have not been things heaped up in the stifling of prison and storehouse in me. I was not a collection of objects I, I, with your smile with your embrace. I we I was we I am in the crowd or in the cell. I am we: a whole joined together. One being: with every name name by name, with every face face by face, form by form with the pronoun “you” and “I”; we are without loneliness alive by joining mingling. Without loneliness alive by seeing each other in our own face each other’s face ...