There Now...

here now

but not exactly 

when there you were

very perfectly

but, not what you became

eventually

now here

you are, a lot of neither

now the unspecific

pure ambivalence

this thing that you are

inside out

it's quite ambiguous

here now,

then tomorrow...

Author's Note

Reviews

[olla]

geeze.. it sounds like a per-pubescent girl.. I suppose it could be a boy as well.. having never been a boy I wouldn't know for sure.. we go through a lot of disguises before we find one that works for us.. however.. in my lifetime I have been many things.. and always seemed to find the proper costume to fit the character.. I liked this one.. I had to read it several times.. it's more complex than meets the eye..

[Davidgeo]

The world is the same every time, it's our disguises that change. Every single one of us is hiding something, how we disguise might be actually who we are. (if i didn't disguise my real self no one would talk to me : ) )

[Davidgeo]

I like how you review poetry.

[Papaya]

Things change, new things take shape, our identity is fluid even though we're still the same (person).

[Davidgeo]

Hello Ana. Fluid like a river, I pretend time is like a river instead of a book. It might really be something much more foreign though. We may never die, "we" might just forget. It takes Time to forget... it takes time form memory. You should check some Luis Cole... I love that guy.

[John the Baptist]

On the surface, this one seems to be about change, but the question is, change to what? I get the feeling that it is saying that even with change we remain ambivalent, "a lot of neither." Apparently, we remain forever in uncertainty.

[Davidgeo]

I think change is actually the constant, staying the same over time would actually be different in reality. Part of this is about us as humans and our floating "will power". You don't have to be insane to change drastically over a short period of time... but from the outside, the world is not the same. There is a line from an Adele song "we care so much about what people we'll never meet" or something like that, I can't remeber it off hand... she's wayyyy better with the words than I am. I will get back to you on that though.... You will like this poem better after listening to that song

[Poetic Beauty]

Things aren’t always what they seem or transform and morph over time into something different

[Davidgeo]

Things are always the same, it is we who always seem different. Our reactions change over time to things that are pretty much just different forms of the same exact thing. I like to wear different masks when I interact with the world now, it might be their place but this is my f*****g time, "everyday is halloween" to me