How Can I Know Me? In You?
Finding ourselves in the empty spaces.
“Where your absence defines your presence…” Monoreena Acharjee Majumdar
What is it to be known?
To leave a void?
To leave a void in space once occupied?
Spaces within family, loved ones, friends, co-workers?
This begs attention to other — of relationship,
sound bouncing around in empty space.
Resonance to be felt in waves
as one being acts upon another.
Without listening, words are spewed
- defines a self.
We scant know ourselves.
We are known in the empty space we once filled,
in heart and mind of friend and foe.
I can never truly see my face.
I only know me in reflection,
in image and countenance — in reaction —
in you
Can I reflect you to you?
“The world is not a battlefield. For, an eye for an eye makes us blind.” Monoreena
Can we fill the space with joy?
Leave no stone unturned,
mulled over and studied — but returned to…