POETRY                                                                                                                                                           (Copyright - Pierre du Toit)
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Three poems - "I am"

(1)

 I am
therefore it is
on the cusp of time
I link the two infinities
yet they will stay apart until
I die
when they shall flow together
and drift into countless nothingness
  when I shall be no more
and neither it will be


(2)

I am
I have always been
I shall always be
I have been since before the beginning
I shall be beyond the end
but in-betweeen
in this

agonizing
glorious
fleeting
moment

I am

universally

me

(3)


I look into the eyes of my mother
and I see the restless origins
I look into the eyes of my children
and I see ambiguous endings;
but when I look into the mirror,
when I look between the eyebrows and the cheekbones
behind the faintly quivering flesh of eyelids,
when I look within the liquid, off-white ovals
holding glistening, green-brown circles,
when I stare into the core
of the quiet, small, black holes
I see

the universe

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