you are closer than they

by Karyn Huntting Peters

you. you are somehow closer than they, those other atoms of
all that is, those other angles and sides and shadows of
the only possible thing, that one is, that existence and reality,
apart and together, different and same, without and within.

you. you are somehow closer, beyond words, a dimension
unknown to the others, and i, this thing i call i, i would
reach out from where i am and i would touch you from so far
across the sameness, yet you, you so far are somehow closer
than the closest of they, they that reach out with their hands
and touch the hand of i, yet cannot reach me, you understand.

you. you do not reach yet you are here. here you are, just as i,
i feel you like i feel myself, your self beyond words existing,
and in this little distance, in all that is, where there is you and
me, i hear silence.

and i feel you, part of you, your self from inside of me.