So the purpose of this blog is to be a space to practice creativity. I am currently using it as a place to record a single, unedited poem for each day in 2019. While I attempt to write everyday, I may not actually post daily. Instead, I will post poems as they are completed, but one for everyday of the year. Not sure I can make it, but we'll see. It's fun to try regardless :)

Sunday, December 15, 2019

Poem: December 15, 2019

Qualia

I take a bite
of an oatmeal cookie,
my grandmother's recipe,
and I am changed,

I ache, for lack of
a better word, in ways
you do not ache
when you bite into
the same cookie, the same
grandmother's recipe,

which demonstrates
the difficulty of being
a human, I suppose.

I do not equal you.
My ache is not your ache.
Your itch is not mine,

and all of our separate,
blind and restless fumblings
within this world go
essentially undefined.

Language, so inadequate,
traps us in our cruel
and foolish binary state:
Me-Not Me. You-Not You.

So you bite the cookie
and you do not ache.

But the cookie is good.
Enjoy the cookie.


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