Parts and Pieces

 

Turning inward
to inspect my introspection

i am in the way

i must be in the way

because i am here 

i am all i see

i cannot see around myself

These ever-hidden parts of me

only others can see

Mysteries 

the truth of which sits

shelved in the corners of others' lives.

Me but not mine.

whole and partial

part and parcel

separately

tied together.

I have held my own absence

I have held my own breath

to watch my body breathe.

I have held my own.

See me

i invite you

i see you

as well

Together we can puzzle out the puzzling complexity of 

nothing special.

of everything real.