The Other -

I am the Other

Catalyst to the quantum mind

I am the other

Subject to no will or design

To each other we can

Never lie…

I’m in your mind as much as

You’re in mine

I can show you

A self beyond yourself

You must choose to

Accept and follow or deny

The other implies

Cracks appear in the perimeter I’ve drawn

Revealing the light beyond

To let it penetrate me

I put you in my place

I cannot stay…

You ask me to ask myself

Show me sketches of you drawing me

Like faces in a superposition

Some intimidate and some entice me

To stray toward the aberrant light

Or cling to the security of the self?

The other implies

I am an image in a shell

That I hold in my hand

Comforting, limiting

Yet to change

There is reluctance and fear…

Put trust in discerning

Let the light crack the shell

Erase the lines that I’ve drawn

Become an image with no shape

No outline

I am the Other

Subject to no will or design

To stray toward the aberrant light

Or cling to the security of the self?

The other implies