Question In a Question

A favorite
teacher asks:

“Is the writing
you’re offering
what you most
want to offer?”

To which I reply:

Aha!

I see the question
in the question:

“Am I being
Who
I most
want to
be?”

But the answers
seem to me
to be quite
different.

In writing,
I choose this,
not that,
(though
the choice
always feels
predestined.)

As for me,
Being Who
I most
want to Be
was Answered
Infinities ago,

when the
Ocean
contained
in each drop
that we are
said
I Am.

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Thank you to
a favorite teacher,
Bill Kenower.
(https://www.authormagazine.org/
editorsblog/2022/10/20/great-expectations)

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“Ocean in a drop” by Persian Poet
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

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(Photo by Terry Vlisidis; UnSplash)