Constancy

                                                                         Continuous

 

                                                                          awareness

of my life

as me.

I am told it is called

the soul.

Inside us all, (except for animals?

But aren't we animals?)

it connects us

I am told

to God'

Universal Mind

Substance

All  -

 still my strongest feeling

is of being alone.

Mysteriously me,  

you're uniquely you

them thwarting they

(unnoticed us

wishing we)

obviously other

than the problem

I can be 

for myself.

In doubt

no soul

just my identity

definitely not a cow

or a bumblebee

or the tree on which I hang

myself out to dry.

If what I feel is real -

as real as one can reasonably expect

in a universe of uncertainty -

then why tie me to divinity?

When experience of my nature 

is full proof of my being

and being is all we are

then why play at shadows

why erect "altar egos"

in fantasy realms

where naive wishes

become desire pernicious

to live for forever

because I fear

to be now?